I saw so much poverty in Guatemala yet I saw amazing human beings who are willing to share the little they have.
People seem to be happy although in my view they seem to struggle in the material sense. Sometimes I ask myself, would they be happier if they have more. Are my views […]
I love the Latin American culture. Every time I visit a Latin American country I enjoy how simple and joyful the people are. I hate monotony and routine and in Latin America I find myself at home with all the daily adventure. I know it’s easy to live these adventures for someone just […]
While I was in Antigua, I decided to go see the volcanoes. I chose not to take a guide and just decided to go alone, which later I found it was a mistake. I left the hostel and took a bus to go to Parramos, a little town where I could catch another […]
I arrived in the beautiful city of Antigua around 1:30PM, I had written a name of a hostel but it took me a while to find it. But I didn’t mind looking for it since I end up discovering this beautiful historical city. The hostel was in quiet part of the city […]
I arrived in Lanquin and started looking for a hostel. Lanquin is a village so it’s easy to walk around. Before I head to Lanquin I had saved some names of the few hostels that are in Lanquin. I saw this little hostel, it looked nice from the outside, I walked in and […]
I left Flores to go to Coban, a city located close to some tourist attractions. It was the weekend and although there is transportation but it was a little limited. A colectivo, a little van converted to carry 14 passengers although most of the time they squeeze more passengers than that, and it’s […]
Flores is a little island, and it’s where most travelers stay to visit the Mayan ruins in Tikal. There are many little villages close to Flores. The first day of my visit, I went to one of these villages called San Jose. Not a lot of tourists visit that place, there isn’t much […]
San Ignacio is less than an hour from the borders with Guatemala. After I crossed the border I needed to take transportation to Flores, it’s a major city in Eastern Guatemala and a tourist destination. The taxi drivers can be very tricky they will tell you that you need a taxi to get […]
Other than visiting the Mayan ruins, some of the common tourists’ activities is visiting some of the caves around San Ignacio. One such activity was the cave tubing, in which you sit inside a tire’s tube and the tour guide would lead the group and you go through the river inside the cave.
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It’s located on the west of Belize and very close to the border with Guatemala. It’s known for its proximity of the Mayan ruins. The trip from Belize city is not long but Belize is very humid and hot, the buses are not air-conditioned, they are actually similar to the big school buses […]
