Livingston - where you are greeted off your riverboat by rastamen murmuring ´Welcome to Ganja Paradise´ - is a rather surreal town right on the tip of Guatemala, which offers a bridge between hispanic-indo Guatemala, and Caribbean Belize. Early on, however, I managed to unwittingly annoy a local hustler, who then made the rest of our (thankfully one afternoon) stay absolutely miserable, and bordering on a little scary, sitting near us and mouthing off about ...

Flurry of blog entries now due...my writing duties have been neglected in favour of sun, sea and sand. Hmm...winding my memory back 2 weeks is a tough thing, I think the gears are a little rusty from the sun, sand and salt! Ah! Got it! Tikal, Guatemala. Home of impressive ruins amidst thronging green rainforest jungle. Picture The Jungle Book, only about a century later, and rather than all of the monkeys singing in the trees, lots of tourists clutching...

I got a little taste of heaven today in a place called Semuc Champey, Guatemala. Picture bright aquamarine natural pools, infinitely connected by delicately splashing waterfalls, surrounded by towering emerald green forest trees, with the sun piercing through brilliantly. Some pools are shallower and warm as a result, others up to 20 foot deep, luscious bluegreen plunging depths. A five minute slippery climb up to the source of the waterfalls, and along the...

Well it`s got to this time, I`ve come this far, I`m writing quite late from Guatemala (ar), Weeks have passed, quite a fair bit of time, without me writing an infamous Lexy P rhyme, I write from the haze of Cuba Libre bliss,forgetting our near escape from a Guatemalan abyss. The bus rides here, well they can raise one`s hair, and in the last bus ride I took, I had more than one scare.I`m either very brave ,courageous and plucky,or if I get through this country I...

I must confess I cheated with the last entry, and sent it from Guatemala due to poor internet connection in Mexico. So now, in the space of a few minutes, it will appear as if I have travelled several hundred kilometres, and crossed the border into Guatemala. But out of guilt I am going to post another brief description of my general shenanigans... Yesterday morning, deadly early, we awoke in San Cristobal, Mexico, and donned multi-layers and bobble hats, as...