Last post for our Thanksgiving 2014 trip to Central America. After several days visiting sites throughout the interior of Guatemala we headed out to Belize to end our trip on the beach. After what felt like a relatively brief bus ride we ended up at the coast in the capital of Belize City around lunch….
Month: December 2014
Tikal, Guatemala. November 2014
Following a thrilling day at Semuc we had a different type of adventure on the way up to Tikal. What was supposed to be a 9 hour day turned a 17 hour ride only to be dropped in rainy Flores at midnight , some 15 miles from our hotel reservation. With no transportation we ended up…
Semuc Champey, Guatemala. November 2014
Sunday we awoke to take a shuttle from Antigua to Semuc Champey. Only about 316 km (about 196 miles), but a long and beautiful 8 hour ride to the town of Lanquin, with a brief stop at the mall in Coban for lunch. In Lanquin, as we arrived locals swarmed our shuttle hoping to book up a…
Coban and Central Highlands, Guatemala. November 2014
During Andy’s meeting in Antigua there were three days of field trips. Day 1 we visited a small diameter bed factory and a lumber yard. Day 2 we started at the Biotopo del Quetzal “Mario Dary Rivera” where we were fortunate enough to observe a female Quetzal in one of the trees at the parking lot….
Antigua, Guatemala. November 2014
Just before the Thanksgiving break Andy had a work meeting in Guatemala. We decided to take advantage of the holiday and spent the week after the meeting traveling through Guatemala and Belize. The meeting began and ended in scenic Antigua. Walking around the city center one is surrounded by churches both in ruin and use and volcanoes…
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