We arrive in Flores after another long day of traveling having left at 6am and arrived about 4pm. We check into the hotel recommended by the tour company, Mirador Del Lago and I get a private room with bathroom for the equivalent of $6 per night! Luxury compared to my previous 2 nights!!! The kiwi boys shop around and get us transfers to Tikal the next day for 50 Quetzales  - a saving of $30. We go for dinner and as we've now met other people at the hostel, o...

We arrived in Antigua at the shuttle company's office about 12.30pm.  We'd dropped Vikki & Fernando off before we arrived, then Fernando met me there shortly after to say she was fine.   We confirmed my shuttle would be leaving in half an hour so didnt have time to go see Vikki - the good news though was her ticket could be changed to the following day. I farewelled Fernando then rushed about to find the main square, cashed up & got myself s deliciou...

On the way to Chichi market I got chatting to English Fernanda & swapped travel stories - good, bad & scary including one of an American lady she met who was on a shuttle in South America that was stopped and all were robbed of their possessions.  They then went through their passports and took the Americans aside and beat them! Another good reason to be Australian! We arrived at the markets just after 10 (3 hour ride that went quick with the chatter) a...

I met English Vicky on the Ticabus that morning and we both took the shuttle from Guatemala City to Antigua together - well worth the $10USD for the convenience. Arriving in Antigua we wandered around getting lost for a bit before finally believing the locals directions and stumbling across Collette & Vinkos recommendation of Yellow House. We dropped of our bags, then organised with the in-house travel agency to get a shuttle the next morning to the ChiChi...