Have You Heard From Laura?

We decided on the chicken bus for the Saturday morning journey to Lago Atitlan. We first took a minivan to the the ´bus terminal´ in Xela. The bus terminal is located in a great market. The best I´ve seen in Guatemala so far. The bus terminal consists of a thousand old american school buses. We […]

Klaus arrived yesterday. I met Klaus in Chile 4 years ago. We randomly kept in touch via email, and decided to travel together around Guatemala for these 3 weeks. Klaus is a happy and melo guy and a superb travel partner.
 The Sakribal field trip today took us to a Navidad Posada.  This is a Catholic […]

The Sakribal field trip today took us to some natural hot springs.  We took a local bus (aka old american school bus) to the little town outside of Xela and then got off and walked about 30 minute through many farms and along a river and also next to a formidable sewage treatment plant. The […]

After spanish lessons I walk home to Sandra´s house for lunch. Lunch is served at 1pm and is the main meal of the day.  Sandra serves traditional Guatemalan food which is rice, black beans, meat at plenty of bread and tortillas. Beverage choices are hot tea, instant coffee, and orange ´drink´.
Sakribal arranges a daily field trip […]

Lunes 17 Dec
There are a few methods of transit in Guatemala.
mas caro (expensive) - taxi
caro (minivan & less expensive but quick) - direct shuttle
normal (what the guatemalan take) - chicken bus
I was in a hurry to get from Antigua to Quetzaltenango (aka Xela) to study Spanish for this week, so I opted for the shuttle […]