hey everyone! So we got back to Antigua yesterday afterour homestay. It was lovely! We divide up in our pairs to stay with our families. The girl who took us to our family could speak a little english and we stayed at her sisters, which is good as there would be a lot more signing otherwise. We had a proper traditional Guatemalan dinner, which was egg, beans, cheese and tortillas. Olga was 21, but her sister had two children. Little juan was two that day and he ...

buenos Dias! I survived the hike up the volcano, yay! It was amazing! I didn't think I would make it up on the walk up, it was about a 45 minute hike on ash and it was so steep! These guys kept pestering us fir a taxi naturale ( a horse) because they could see us gasping for air. But I didn't like the idea of being in the back of a horse on that steep incline, I trusted by own feet more! When wegot to the top we got to roast some marshmallows! How many people c...

Hola everyone! happy birthday to Andrew and Angela (I´m not sure I will be able to get in tomorrow). I hope the party was good fun on Saturday! We got to Antigua today, after a 6hour journey with the 16 of us crammed into Marco´s van! I was on a normal chair that had been wedged in because there wasn´t enough seats, not the most comfortable in the world when your exhausted! Antigua is gorgeous! Guatemala is not at all what I expected it to be. Antigua is a...

Hola! I've had the most hilarious morning! Getting up at 5am has made us all hyper! We met a guatemalan guy this morning for a sunrise kayaking tour to see the howler monkeys! We got so close to them and they're so cute! I was nearly going to bring the baby one home! Only problem was that me and debbie shared a kayak and we were horrendous! Everyone was wetting themselves laughing. We were kayaking down this cute little river like in Pocahontas, and it was so pe...

Hola! Can someone wish grandad a happy birthday for me! Tell him to have a great day and I'm sorry I couldn't be there! We crossed over the border yesterday into Guatemala and went so see Tikal, which is an old Mayan city. It was pretty cool! We had a guide, thankfully the place was massive and right in the middle of the jungle so we would havevgot lost without him. We have just stayed in Flores for the night, and we're moving on today to rio dulce so this has...