Thursday, July 10, 2008

Backpacking Guatemala

So we (my friend Jane and Trey) left San Lucas Toliman and started our own adventure around Guatemala. Trey and I started by traveling to Quezeltenango (Xela) in search for indigo.. which turned out to be quite the search indeed.. we didn't end up finding the natural die, but we did get to stay in a hotel that was a converted prison! It was such a strange hotel, but had an amazing view of the town square. After that Trey and I met up with Jane in Antigua, spent a few nights there, and then started our trek north. We went to see caves in Lanquin, the ruins in Tikal, we stayed in the creepiest hotel in Chisec which had huge statues of dinosaurs and mushrooms with fake tree waterslides, then we went to the jungle where we had to hike 4 km to get to our "hotel" and went swimming in the clearest, most beautiful lake! We then went to Coban, stayed there for a night, before going back to Antigua. We stayed in Antigua for the last 3 nights or so. Jane and I went on an adventure up a volcano and saw lava and Jane got to poke the lava with her stick.... and then we came back to Antigua and left Guatemala yesterday morning. I know that was a long long list of random names but I will try to give more details or pictures sometime soon....