Category: Guatamala

Feb 25, 2019 Excited for a rest day in a beautiful place today we just hung out.  Our friend Josh that we have been traveling with from San Ignacio, Belize was in a hostel across the way from us.  After a leisurely morning the three of us with Kyra went over to his hostel to…

Feb 24 2019 Today we head to Lanquin to get to the pools of Guatemala’s favorite Semuc Champey.  It was a 6 hour long shuttle ride for only 110 Q (about $14.25 USD each).  Driving through the countryside was beautiful.  However, the shuttle was jammed packed and we even had a person sitting on the…

Feb 23 2019 We knew our next stop was going to be the town of Lanquin where you can reach the pools of Semuc Champey.  We stopped at a travel center in Flores and found that we could take an 8 hour long shuttle ride to Lanquin the next morning for about $14 usd per…

Feb 22, 2019 After another hot and muggy night in the 9 person dorm room we decided to book a private room in Flores for another couple nights.  We decided we would ‘treat ourselves’ and spend a little extra to get a hotel with a pool.  We packed our things and crammed into a tuk…

Feb 21, 2019 After only a couple hours of not very good sleep we got up at 2:30am and were outside by 3am to catch the shuttle to Tikal.  It was about a 1.5 hour long ride to the site.  We hiked in the dark to reach the tallest pyramid there (and the 2nd largest Mayan…

Feb, 20th 2019 Today we left Belize and crossed the boarder to Guatemala.  This was the first time we had ever walked across a boarder.  We took a cab from San Ignacio to the boarder (about a 15 min ride) where we paid a $20 USD exit fee per person to leave Belize.  At the…