This is part 3 of our 3-part post about our Lake Atitlan adventures. Here’s part 1 and part 2. The doctor had said to stay off my leg for 10 days or until the infection had healed. It had been about a week and although far from healed, it was […]
Archives for March 2014
Beers Around Guatemala
We loved Guatemala for so many reasons… the awesome recreation, the beauty of the highlands, the friendly people, and the terrific value for your money. Although there are plenty of great reasons to come to Guatemala, beer tourism probably isn’t one of them. But if you are making your way […]
Paragliding Lake Atitlan: What It Was Like To Soar Over Guatemala
While traveling through San Pedro, Guatemala with a nasty skin infection on my leg, we were looking for some fun things to do that would keep me off my leg. We had heard that you could go paragliding in Lago Atitlan, so that fits the bill! But we didn’t even really know […]
Kayaking Around Sunken San Pedro La Laguna
After our week in Xela studying Spanish while John’s infection healed, it was time to head on out to our next destination in Guatemala, the lovely Lago Atitlan. We had planned to do a lot of hiking and other active pursuits here, but those plans had now been halted by […]
Dealing with a Nasty Infection in Guatemala
It was only a matter of time before one of us got hurt. I (John) had some sort of bug bite on my leg. Perhaps it was a spider bite or maybe just a mosquito bite-gone-bad. We’ll probably never know. Whatever insect did this to me; my leg was not […]
Back to School (Volver a la Escuela)
Our Need for Spanish School in Xela Guatemala During previous trips to Mexico, most people spoke decent enough English in the popular tourist destinations we’ve travelled to. So we mistakenly thought we’d be able to get by fine in our first few Mexico destinations and hopefully we’d slowly pick up […]
Hiking Volcan Tajumulco: Summiting the Highest Mountain in Central America
Under the cloak of the night sky we were completely lost, clinging to the side of a mountain cliff with no ropes or harnesses, shivering cold in below freezing temperatures, and unable to breath the thin air. Surely we had to be close to the mountain’s summit but the moonlight […]
Cruising the Rio Dulce in Guatemala
This post is ruining the continuity of this blog. I just realized we never posted about our journey down the beautiful Rio Dulce to Livingston. So lets rewind just a bit, shall we? To get to Livingston you must take a boat. Our route took us right on down the Rio Dulce. […]
The Long Journey From Semuc to Xela and Hiking Nebaj to Acul
We were in Semuc Champey and needed to get to Quetzaltenango (AKA “Xela” for short). It appeared the most direct route was through the Northern Highlands of Guatemala. Alternatively there were tourist shuttles that we could take on a more Southerly route through Antigua and then connect to Xela. We […]