After a long harrowing journey on the bus with the hangover from hell (its a really bad idea to drink the night before if Im going to travel on the bus the next day-blurgh. but we had an awsome night so it was worth it) we arrived at Chichicastenango, a market town, which I called dirty hobbit ville as despite being a great market place with wonderous little stalls, there were so many peolpe everywhere, like ants and everyone was so small, I know im tall but I wa...

Arrived at Flores, a small quaint pretty island-town, just in time to relax with a bottle of wine on the balcony of the hotel and watch the sunset. Again, the hotel has exceeded my expectation as is set overlooking a magnificant lake, with a pool and great bar and restuarant. So after a long day of travelling we enjoyed a great meal and relaxed with a few drinks then headed to bed early as we had an early start tomorrow. Our day started at 5.45 am, yes 5.45 ...

We travelled North/South of Antigua to Rio Dulce, and again not knowing what to expect. Arrived at Rio Dulce and we had to take a speed boat to our intented accomadation. Having travelled the States and Canada for the last 2 month, staying in accomadation of varying standard I was blown away with the accomadation we were to stay for just one night. After a 5 minutes speed boat journey we arrived at small island hosting beautiful cabins on the waterfront of lake I...

So the second leg of the adventure begins.... Arrived in Guatemala city late in the night on 2nd November after a long two days of travelling from LA airport into Mexico City, then getting a connect flight to Guatemala city then a shuttle to Antigua where the tour of Central America is due to start on the 4th November. I was the first of the group to arrive so spent the first few days discovering what Antigua had to offer. So hit the cobble street, not knows wh...