Panajachel, a.k.a. Pana (thankfully Guatemalans like to shorten their town names), is going to be a nice base. Its location in the highlands of Guatemala & on the shores of Lago de Atitlán (Lake Atitlán) is stunning, surrounded as it is by many picturesque...
I love travelling when I’m travelling. So getting around Guatemala, and Central America in general, is going to be fun. It was today, a thwarted pickpocketing aside. And that’s thanks to the so-called chicken buses, the large, noisy, colourful, carbon...
When travelling in the Central American country of Guatemala it’s hard to avoid Antigua (not that one should, of course). I didn’t avoid it for long spending most of yesterday, my third day in the country, on buses getting here from Flores in the north. Long day...
Belize. Now there’s a Central American aberration for sure. Guatemala is more like it – more Latin American. It’s early days of course but so far, so good. I arrived in Flores in northern Guatemala a few days ago after a long cross-border bus ride...
Tikal is Guatemala’s blue-ribboned Mayan ruins, somewhere I’ve just returned from (I could have done without the stupid o’clock / 4 a.m. start this morning). This is the sixth set Mayan ruins I’ve visited in three different countries since...
My 3 days & 3 nights of doing nothing on Caye Caulker, a small, low-elevation, sandy island of the coast of Belize in Central America, have come to an end. All I really did here was take pictures & even they were pretty repetitive. There’s only so much a small...
I’ve just arrived in Caye Caulker, Belize. A caye, also spelled cay or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island formed on the surface of a coral reef. And that’s exactly what Caye Caulker is – a small sandy island in the Caribbean Sea off the Belizean mainland....
I took a look around Belize City this afternoon, the biggest city in Belize but not the capital – that’s a place called Belmopan (reads like a dangerous chemical). Even though it’s the biggest city Belize has to offer, & even meandering as slowly as I...
If you ever find yourself paying a visit to the Lamanai Mayan ruins in the Central American country of Belize, it’s quite likely that the trip to and from the site, via speedboat on the country’s New River, will end up being the highlight of the outing. It...
I had one of those travel moments today, a few minutes after stepping off the bus from Chetumal in Mexico & weighed down with my bags, when I found myself questioning what the hell I was doing here, here being a place called Orange Walk in northern Belize. Orange...
