Dear all, What a great birthday!! After a little cumbersome ride to Lago Atitlan, we arrived at 11am. Maarten had a destination in mind and directed us towards there upon arrival. How surprised was I when I found myself in a shop arranging paraglide flights over the lake. That was my birthday surprise - Maarten let me know. What a cool idea!! I have been saying for some time that I wanted to try paragliding before. Unfortunately it was not possible the sa...

Nothing or all: to be honest we had some doubts whether to go to Guatemala or not, taking the security situation and the numerous other travel destinations on our route into consideration. But having talked to travellers on our way we had met so many that were fine and had gone to most of the places where we wanted to go. We even met a girl traveling by herself. Then it was decided - we were going to Guatemala. The moment that we decided to go there we were...