Nearly There…

Rio Dulce sounded like a cool place to spend New Year. The Hotel Catamaran sounded good from the Lonely Planet - somewhere where we could chill out for a few days.
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Our penultimate day of 2005 was going to be fairly chilled. We had a lazy breakfast (with Deet this time), after Eugene had run down the batteries of the camera trying to get a picture of the hummingbirds. Eugene spent the morning updating the blog and I almost finished another book. Our shuttle bus was booked through a tour agency in town for 1pm and it arrived already quite full with other tourists.
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An early start would mean that we made it to the ruins before the crowds - and before the sun got too much. So we were up for breakfast for just after 7am. Breakfast at the Casa de Cafe was superb. ... [Continue reading this entry]

We stocked up at breakfast then got a taxi to Calle 19 in the lowlife district of Zona 1 where the buses left from. We knew that this was going to be a hectic place, rife with pick pockets and ... [Continue reading this entry]

We aimed for our final day in Flores to be fairly chilled out. We just needed to sort out some transport from Guat City to Copan in Honduras if possible. Eug had sent off various emails to different companies the ... [Continue reading this entry]

Skyscrapers aren't new. The Mayans were building them years before the glass and steel variety of today, and with far less technology to help them reach for the sky. What's more, there's no chance that contemporary slithers of ... [Continue reading this entry]

Christmas Day - what a great excuse to finally have a lie in and read some more of the books! We opened the curtains to find the whole place covered in mist. We wondered if it was all the smoke ... [Continue reading this entry]

Staring down at the Rio Usumacinta swirling and eddying it's way northeastwards into the plains of Mexico, my stomach began to mimick the thick brown water gushing its way between the land borders of Mexico and Guatemala. We'd ... [Continue reading this entry]

Palenque ain`t that big although it always seemed rather busy. A quick swizz at the well-thumbed Lonely Planet took us to a cafe in town - can´t remember the name now. The service was good. We had a fantastic bowl of ... [Continue reading this entry]

Thought we´d slip this entry in for our mate Victor who has a particular interest in bandits. According to the Lonely Planet Guide, bandit activity still exists in Mexico and Guatemala. Robberies and rapes are the most common activity of said ... [Continue reading this entry]