Hi everyone, Well we survived our volcano climb... just!! The tour started with a 1.5 hour shuttle bus ride to the base of Pacaya, and then about 1.5 hours of hiking through mountainous terrain to make it the the base of the volcano. From the base of the volcano, we could see all the way to Guatemala City, and beyond... just stunning. Then the real fun began. The sides of the volcano are covered in molten rock and loose ash, which we had to climb at a...

Hi everyone, Well we survived our volcano climb... just!! The tour started with a 1.5 hour shuttle bus ride to the base of Pacaya, and then about 1.5 hours of hiking through mountainous terrain to make it the the base of the volcano. From the base of the volcano, we could see all the way to Guatemala City, and beyond... just stunning. Then the real fun began. The sides of the volcano are covered in molten rock and loose ash, which we had to climb at a...

Hi everyone, Well we survived our volcano climb... just!! The tour started with a 1.5 hour shuttle bus ride to the base of Pacaya, and then about 1.5 hours of hiking through mountainous terrain to make it the the base of the volcano. From the base of the volcano, we could see all the way to Guatemala City, and beyond... just stunning. Then the real fun began. The sides of the volcano are covered in molten rock and loose ash, which we had to climb at a...

Hi there everyone! Its Saturday today so we have no school. We are getting better with our spanish, we can ask people their names and read from a menu and know what most stuff is, but we have decided to spend another week at Spanish school to build up our vocabulary. The days at school are pretty fun. We spend from 8 until 12 just the two of us with our teacher, and then again from 2 till 4 and he is quite good and funny so we havent been bored yet. Th...

Hi everyone, well weve finally left South America, we have just arrived in Guatemala, to our Spanish School. We are booked in for a week, 6 hours per day to help us to get around central america without having to use hand gestures and play charades with everyone we speak to! The school looks beautiful, and we are staying with a local family, just around the corner and they seem really nice too, so it should be a good week coming up. We are kind of glad to b...