The Río Dulce is a 45km stretch of water between Lago De Izabal, the largest lake in Guatemala, and the Caribbean Sea. We were taking a boat cruise down the river to Livingston at the far end for lunch and back again. There is not a lot of human habitation along the river apart from small settlements, and some rich "mansions". There were lots of birds though - cormorants, herons and pelicans were the ones we recognised. The river is extremely wide in place...

We went back to Dońa Goya for a big breakfast before we took a 4 hour shuttle from Flores to Río Dulce. We were going to be travelling over lunchtime and past experience told us we wouldn't be stopping at much more than a gas station along the way. To our surprise, a 2 month old van was waiting outside for us when we were due to leave. It was big and spacious and we were the only 2 passengers - happy days!! Our driver, Gabriel, was everything you wou...