This blog deals, rather briefly, with my two weekends at Lake Atitlan and Tikal respectively. They are two of the best attractions (by all accounts) in Guatemala and I thoroughly enjoyed both. By the way, given how blogs work, you may want to scroll down to my 'Executive Summary' blog below, to get a more general sense of how I have been finding things.Thus, first Lake Atitlan - I arrived from South Africa via Madrid on the Friday night local time (after a 27 h...

I have now been in Guatemala for exactly three working weeks and four weekends. For those of you who are already getting somewhat bored by this blog, here is the executive summary: I am having a blast. It has been many a year since my feet have been so profoundly reunited with a pair of flip flops, or my stomach so challenged by local cuisine (perhaps more of this later). Guatemala is green, rugged, old and developing, poor and profound, confused, confusing, m...