Took the overnight, didn´t die
Much literature has been published from a combination of embassies and travel guides warning about traveling at night. The overwhelming majority (aka all) of which strongly advises against overnught travel even with the luxury ´1st class´busses. Still, what the books dont tell you is that on the whole, these times are much cheaper than traveling through the day. (The travel agencies don´t explain why, but I assume it´s due to the higher chance of robbery.) Still, not all doom and gloom, we made it all the way to Flores in the far north without incident. There was a worrying moment driving through Guatemala City, where there has been a spate of armed robberies of tourist shuttles recently (maybe the US embassy has even put a ´dont travel to Guatemala´warning out to it´s citizens in light of these recent attackts.) We were sitting in our shuttle, maybe 7 or 8 of us not including driver, and all of our backpacks were on the roof, as is the practice out here. Never felt like more of a target, we had to make sure all of the tinted windows were rolled up I think. We heaqrd a pistol shot go off as we passed a group of scoundrels.
Still, we are here, Tikal either tomorrow of Sunday, muchos exitementos.
This is all a joke by the way mum, Guatemala´s actually just like Europe.
Tags: Flores, Guatemala, Travel
