Leaving day and 7 hours to the next stop. To make the journey interesting Liz got Guatemala belly. We barely got 200 meters before we had our first hitch. A steep section of dirt road was impassiable after the rain last night. Luckily the resident levelling plant machinery was still there from when we came, it even had a driver. An hour later we were bouncing our way along the road through beautiful scenery. And the best bit, the mini bus is only half full. T...

Liz has been winging a bit about the cockroaches here. She has a point, every night we have a roach hunt, we dont bother much about the small ones, its the inchers we are after and there is normally more than one of them. The point is we needed to finish off - get the tick in the box before moving on. The tick in the box took the form of seeing Chemuk Campney, reputed to be the most beautiful place in Guatemala. To see it we had to jump in the back of a pickup ...

I needed a pee badly at 8am. It is strange how you always find yourself wanting to go only when you don't have a on suite toilet. Having a wee wee involved getting dressed and walking 100 yards up a stepped hill. When you get there any sleepyness that you did have remaining goes when you get a sight or wiff from the toilets. The toilets are quite cool however lots of art work and the thatch gives it an exclusive feel. What detracts is the half full urinal and t...

Last night involved a cheap bottle of Rum, various people that we travelled north with, some drinking games and truth or dare in that order. It was a very memerable night that I don't think that I will forget in a hurry. Liz is unsurprisingly paying the price and is still in bed with the usual emergency crisps at the standby. Apart from the cockerals it is very quiet here. Cabins are widely separated on a steep slope with little paths going off to each one, the...

We said goodbye to San Pedro and boarded the shuttle bus (basically a mini bus) to Languin a days drive north. The mini bus was jamed full of gringos also going north. Consequently the overloaded bus literally crawled over the numerous potholes and steep mountainous roads. The first leg was back to Antigua where we had to change buses for the longer leg of the journey. Again we had a mini bus that was almost three quarters full. It is normally against the law to...