EL SALVADOR | Tuesday, 17 Feb 2009 | Photo Gallery
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HONDURAS | Sunday, 15 Feb 2009 | Photo Gallery
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HONDURAS | Friday, 13 Feb 2009 | Views [1138]
13th - The owner of the Hidden River Hotel gave us melon for breakfast then gave us a ride into Peña Blanca. We tried without luck to hitch a ride so caught a bus to La Guama and on from there to Siguatepeque and changed again to a bus to La Esperanza.... Read more >
HONDURAS | Thursday, 12 Feb 2009 | Photo Gallery
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HONDURAS | Wednesday, 11 Feb 2009 | Views [1391]
We took heaps of buses etc to get to a place called D&D's by the lake south of Peña Blanca. We travelled with an interesting american guy we had met at Omoa. D&D's is a micro-brewery and we thought it would be a fun place to stay as we could ... Read more >
HONDURAS | Sunday, 8 Feb 2009 | Views [734]
As has happened to Carol before we managed to get ripped off a bit when changing money at the border to Honduras, mainly due to the immigration official who blatantly lied to our faces. Amazing, we never expect the official people to be corrupt but ... Read more >
HONDURAS | Saturday, 7 Feb 2009 | Photo Gallery
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GUATEMALA | Saturday, 7 Feb 2009 | Views [733]
We hitched a lift in the back of a ute to a place called El Paraiso where there is a hot river that waterfalls into a cold one. We paid 10q ea to get in and carried our packs about 5 minutes to the falls and got in and had a swim. We climbed up the ... Read more >
GUATEMALA | Friday, 6 Feb 2009 | Photo Gallery
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GUATEMALA | Friday, 6 Feb 2009 | Views [859]
February 6th was a bit of a bastard of a day. We headed out from Lanquin by hitching a ride in a lorry, it was fun travelling in the back but when we got to the turnoff to be dropped the driver insisted on us paying exactly what we would have paid ... Read more >
GUATEMALA | Wednesday, 4 Feb 2009 | Views [1477]
Things are getting really tight for us travelling. The dollar has dropped to it's lowest point and it is making our already tight budget into a bit of a nightmare. on the 2 Feb NZ$1 = US$0.50 !! Luckily we are in a less developed country, we are hoping ... Read more >
GUATEMALA | Tuesday, 3 Feb 2009 | Photo Gallery
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GUATEMALA | Tuesday, 3 Feb 2009 | Photo Gallery
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GUATEMALA | Monday, 2 Feb 2009 | Photo Gallery
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GUATEMALA | Sunday, 1 Feb 2009 | Views [676]
We caught a shuttle from San Pedro to Antigua as it was the cheapest option. It was a small bus and only had tourists on board. All was fine until about three quarters of the way thru the journey Kent started to turn green and a few minutes later threw ... Read more >
GUATEMALA | Thursday, 29 Jan 2009 | Views [4015]
We are staying at the moment with a local family, of Melida Ortez and Domingo Rodrigez. The first week they had 3 granddaughters staying with them = Melida 8, Melani 5 and Mariordi 4, but this week only Melanie remains. We have a plain room ... Read more >
GUATEMALA | Thursday, 15 Jan 2009 | Views [1125]
We took a launch across the lake to San Pedro, and found ourselves a lovely hotel room with bathroom for 50q and spent a few days exploring the town which is quite big and growing. We went to a bar and watched a free movie while Kent and Gary shared ... Read more >
GUATEMALA | Thursday, 15 Jan 2009 | Photo Gallery
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GUATEMALA | Monday, 12 Jan 2009 | Views [762]
We were lucky to have a hospedaje (guesthouse) recommended to us and got a room with 2 double beds which we shared with Gary for 60quetzales. We get approx 4.5 quetzales per NZ$1, we were getting 8 pesos for NZ$1 in Mexico so you would think that things ... Read more >
GUATEMALA | Sunday, 11 Jan 2009 | Photo Gallery
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GUATEMALA | Sunday, 11 Jan 2009 | Views [684]
We caught a collectivo from Comitan and it dropped us outside immigration at the border of Mexico. We actually lined up and Carol was first and presented her passport, of course the man couldn't find an entry stamp so asked for her tourist card. She ... Read more >
MEXICO | Friday, 9 Jan 2009 | Views [815]
Comitan is only about an hour and a half from San Cristobal so a quick walk to the bus station and we were on our way. Not much is written in the guidebooks about Comitan other than that its the last stopping place before the border. We found a lovely ... Read more >
MEXICO | Tuesday, 6 Jan 2009 | Views [993]
We arrived in San Cristobal midday. While Carol minded the packs at the bus station, Kent went looking for lodgings. There are HEAPS of tourists here, many seem to be from Europe and the prices of the hostels and hotels are priced accordingly :o( Kent ... Read more >
MEXICO | Tuesday, 6 Jan 2009 | Photo Gallery
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MEXICO | Sunday, 4 Jan 2009 | Views [752]
We arrived in Tuxtla early in the morning after having a sleep on the bus (a 10 hour overnight trip) but still felt a bit shattered so took the first hotel room we found (the Grand Hotel Olimpa at 140p) and immediately crashed for a few hours. In the ... Read more >
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