Well Guatemala City was exhilarating if a little scary. What with the locals warning us it was a dangerous place to be, madmen talking to us in the park and the bus company scamming us for our trip back up north (well actually there was no scamming but we were charged much more for a "luxury" bus that differed from the one we got down here by giving us a free sandwich and given no option to accept it! Anyway we spent the afternoon here. Even if the globaliza...

We spent a nice relaxed last day in Antigua, punctuated only by a massive storm on Sunday night, which we thought was normal fare even as the courtyard flooded around our hostel. It was only when a concerned owner appeared and shouted at her husband that we were a bit worried. Anyway, that ordeal over the next day we were on our prearranged bus for a three hour trip up the country to the breathtaking volcanic Lake Aticlan. We arrived in Panajachel, where we ...

We got the overnight bus from Flores to Guatemala City for about a tenner each. Mel slept for the whole eight hours (reminding her of the old CH ski trips!). Arriving in the city we tried to get out of it asap and headed to Antigua with a taxi driver who was either colour blind or just didnt see red lights and a pimped up chicken bus (the buses here are much more cared for, aesthetically at least) Antigua is lovely. Views of the volancoes surround the city, ...

The bus "for Flores" was already there when we got to the bus station, so we jumped on, only an American school bus this time, but no complaints from us for our 2 pounds each. However it was slow going to the border, although Western Belize is a much pleasanter drive than the North which we went through yesterday, and even the food offered to us on the way was quite tempting. Disregarding the fact we were told the bus went to Flores, we were chucked off and ...