When we finally got out of antigua and on the winding roads, we made our way to Lake Atitlan where we got the boat over to San Juan for a planterra supported Mayan homestay. The lake is beautiful and sorrounded by volcanoes. The area has several towns which are all Mayan. We stayed in San Juan which is a bit smaller but now growing in tourism, and it is famous for its natually and hand dyed cottons. ASs it is a volcanic area it is quite hilly so we made our w...

Sorry the internets been a bit bad so havent updated in a while! so we left Rio Dulce and got a bus to the UNESCO world hertiage city old city of Antigua, Guatemala, the old capital or Guatemala. It is now guatemala city due to eartquakes ruining Anitgua. It is a very pretty a quaint city built in a spanish Baroque style. It is laid out in blocks with streets running in avenues and calles (streets off the avenues). And all the streets are cobbled. The house...

After Flores we were slightly dismayed to find that we would once again be staying in aJungle Lodge and so were not exactly excited to see our basic accomodation! I am happy to say we were wrong to prejudge! We arrived by bus then boat to the Hacienda Tijax Hotel & Jungle Lodge in Rio Dulc, Guatemala! All of the chalets were quite large with 2 or 3 beds in a completly white room with white bedding and white mosquito drapes (the ones that look elegant, not a...

After the ideas of sunshine forever where put to an end in San ignacio we were morethan pleased to get a private bus to bring us to Flores via Tikal Mayan Ruins. The drive was actually very pleasant as it was sunny so we passed lots of local villages where most people lived in low rise buildings with washing lines outside. The scenery was very tropical with dense jungle for miles. Once we passed the Belized border into Guatemala the infrastructure definetly ch...