Hector Don't really know what he does for work - buy cars in the u.s and sell here..maybe Owns a section of land by the lake Has a boat Smokes lots Drinks lots Talks lots. Cheated on his wife lots, quite a lonely man. Ramon More my type of guy. Let's hector talk, then buts in every so often to tell hector he is talking rubbish and he is an idiot. Raman is a sculpturer. He takes rock from around the lake and carves in into master pieces. He is an ex-archeo...

Dom's Last Day I sneaked out of my bed before anyone was awake and took my towel and bikini with me, made a coffee and went to the pier. This sounds very organised, fresh headed and idealistic for a morning. It was not. Coffee was forgotten and involved sneaking back into the dorm, cat busted in on my milk powder, couldnt find a light for the gas stove - then a lady beat me to the pier so I had to do the reverse mr bean scene in putting on my bikini bottom. Bu...

Tikal is an old Mayan city in the north of Guatemala. It is huge, only partly dug out of the jungle and restored and has endless temples. This was my first temple visit and by what other folk are saying its o e of the most impressive. Before we arrived we read that temple 4 was the most popular first thing in the morning for climbing (it is the tallest at 64m) when the jungle canopy "comes alive". So plan a was to dodge this temple and go to a less popular hi...

Just to note a few words on the chicken bus trips I have had. When you are on a main road the chicken buses are old pimped up American school buses, lots of Jesus banners on the front and music playing. There was always room for more people. Most of the time the put luggage on the top of the bus but there is that occasion were they just throw you on the cramped but with rucksack (about the size of an average Guatemalan man) and small back pack. You squeeze your...

This day was a put on the boots and hike day. Dom was the lead on this and our direction was to a waterfall in a village in the hills. Directions were: Follow this road Take the left turn after the third bridge Follow the track into the hills until you reach the village, you will see the waterfall Total walking time: 3 hours So this obviously did not happen and instead we went on a bit of an adventure.. Walked and an hour 15 without finding a third bridge,...