Category Archives: Guatemala

We decided on an earlyish start to our trip into Guatemala as we were doing it ourselves in Chicken buses and we thought we had a few changes. But as we only had 180kms to travel we didn’t think we would have a problem.  After one bus change we were soon walking across the borderContinue reading “Antigua”

From Antigua we planned to head to Lago de Atitlan not really knowing what to expect other than the fact that it had been described as stunningly beautiful. So sounded pretty good. The sun was almost out in Antigua so we decided to spend our last few hours wandering around admiring the beauty of theContinue reading “San Marcos at Lake Atitlan “

We were off to another local market about 2 hours away today. We caught a shuttle there and I must admit the road from San Marcos to the town on the other side of the mountain was one of the worst we have ever been on and it wasn’t even dirt! The pot holes inContinue reading “Chichi Markets”

Well we wished we had allocated more time to Honduras but unfortunately we had to leave and had decided to try and see two more sights in Guatemala before getting out for a few days in Belize and then trying to get a week in the south east of Mexico. We had a decision toContinue reading “Semuc Champey”

Well the journey from Lanquin to Flores was only 250km and we were going by shuttle and being picked up at 8 so we’re hoping to be there at around lunchtime. No unfortunately the horror stories of transit in Guatemala continues and we eventually got dropped off at 6pm!! I have a feeling that theContinue reading “Tikal”