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Guatemala

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Darkness in Antigua

Friday, 11 Dec 1998 | Views [628]

I was on the third tortilla when the world began to spin. I had just enough time to think "I'm going to throw up or pass out" so, not wanting to offend the lady at whose stall we were eating, I stood up. Gravity did the rest as my consciousness ... Read more >

Tags: food, doctors, hospitals & health, health, accidents, danger, travel insurance


Life & death in Chichicastenango

Thursday, 26 Nov 1998 | Views [699]

The peaks of the volcanos, cloaked in cloud and on fire from the dawn sun, glide past the windows of our plane. In my imaginations I had painted a land of jungle not volcanos large enough to greet you as you arrive by plane. Being thrown back into ... Read more >

Tags: philosophy of travel, volcano, clouds, culture, death, mortality, children

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