On the morning of 1st December I felt like I had a cold coming on and so had a long lie in. Eventually I headed out to see the Gold Museum for an interesting hour, …
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19. Nicaragua to San Jose
From Managua bus terminal, I travelled several hours south to the town of Rivas where I had a long wait for a local bus to get me down to the coastal village of San Juan. …
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Once inside Honduras I found a local bus that got me as far as the town of Choculteca. I agonised with the fact that my natural route wasn’t going to take me to the Honduran …
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I woke with a slight headache, but feeling unusually well rested… A local bus got me to the terminal from which the international buses leave, and I was soon on a bus heading for the …
Continue reading16. Antigua and Guatemala City
There was shocking news Thursday morning, 22nd November, when I tuned in to the BBC World Service. Maggie has been forced out of office and has quit as Prime Minister!! The Thatcher years are finally …
Continue reading15. Learning Spanish in Antigua
My new (temporary) identity as a full time student kicked off in earnest on Monday morning, 19th November. Breakfast was served at 7am by my host family, and it was better than I expected. I …
Continue reading14. Tikal
On the flight from Guatemala City I had started chatted to an American called Will Tappe, and I ended up joining him for the rest of my time at Tikal. We got the minibus from …
Continue reading13. To Antigua and Flores
On 15th November (Thursday) I left Panajachel on an early bus, which rattled its way back up to the junction on the main highway – it didn’t break down this time. I got chatting to …
Continue reading12. Lake Atitlán and Panajachel
I left Huehuetenango on the morning of 13th November, and after a 3 hour trip along entertaining mountain roads reached a road junction where I had to change buses to get to Panajachel. The second …
Continue reading11. Huehuetenango and Zaculeu
As the bus approached the Guatemalan border, it was clear that the relatively well developed infrastructure of Mexico was deteriorating. The villages got poorer and dustier, and the vehicles older and more dilapidated. The bus …
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