Day 76-79 Antigua Antigua was a pleasant surprise. We were not sure what to expect from a fairly large town, close to Guatemala City and all, but we had heard good things and it did not disappoint. The second you drive off the main highway and enter Antigua your surrounded by a beautiful Spanish Colonial town with narrow cobble stone streets, painted tiles on the side of building walls for street signs, stone buildings painted different colours and just a good r...

Day 75 Coban We were only in Coban for less than 24hrs but it is worth writing about just for the food. We arrived from Semuc Champey and checked into a Hostel, Casa D'Acuna, that was quoted as being 'the most fancy Hostel in Central America'. We had to give it a go. The rooms were situated around a beautiful garden courtyard that doubled as pretty upmarket restaurant where the waiters had earpieces to talk to the kitchen staff and they all wore immaculate unifo...

Day 73-74 Semuc Champey Today was a long day of commuting but well worth it. Our shuttle bus picked us up at 6am, we were the last pick up stop. So this ment that we had the last 2 jammed seats in the 15 seater van. It was already sticky and hot that early and there was one real seat left and one home- made metal thing that they wedged in between 2 other seats that Brendan sat on. This was going to be a fun ride. After 7hrs of travelling and only a few stops, w...

Day 71-72 Flores, Guatemala - Tikal We safely crossed the border from Belize and made our way to a little town in the North of Guatemala called Flores, which sits on an island in a lake. We checked into a great little hostel which was super clean and very quiet. We then thought we might explore for alittle while. 20mins later we had circled the whole island. It was a great little place, with nice restaurants on the water, small jetties to go swimming and fishing...