Myself and 4 other students (American, Irish, French and Swede) from my school went away this weekend up to Coban and surrounding area. We arranged the trip through a travel agent and left after school on Friday afternoon. The idea was that we have the van to ourselves and therefore can be flexible on where we go and what we do....we quickly learnt that the locals are tough negotiators and it was not too flexible...but that is okay we still had a great weekend. ...

Well things are looking up...! I had a very funny weekend...Went out Friday and Saturday night with some of the other students from the school to a few bars and clubs (if you can call them that) and a very strange after party...When all the bars close at about 1am there are after parties around town....the one I went to on Friday night appeared to be someones backyard with a makeshift toilet in the middle of the lawn and serving very bad vodka and hotdogs. The ba...

Well, week 2 in Antigua. On Saturday I climbed Volcano Pacaya...it is active! If OSH in New Zealand saw these tours....they would not be liking them. The ride there was interesting....a van that was making some strange noises and I thought the road up the mountain may have been a one way with the blind corners the driver was overtaking on....but no...it was a 2 way road! Got there okay and the hike up was pretty hard going, but well worth it. When we finally reac...

There have been a few times this week I have thought...what part of ´travelling alone in Central America´ was a good idea....but I am hanging in there as things can only get better. After an intersting flight to Guatemala in a tiny plane with no air con I arrived at Guatemala airport. I basically had to find a customs person to stamp my passport in what seemed like a deserted airport. Once outside the airport and no sign of the person who was meant to collect...