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6th March 2022
Today after sleeping in we decided to visit a local macadamia farm, after struggling to get an uber we drove to the outskirts of the city where we arrived at the farm. There they showed us around the farm telling us how the macadamia are grown and how they are processed after they fall from […]
5th March 2022
Today we woke up early and had pancakes for breakfast at our homestay before heading back to the center of the city where i picked up my painting and got to meet the artist who made it. Following this we took a boat to sail us accross the lake back to the city where a […]
4th March 2022
Today after catching up on sleep, we boarded a boat to go to Casa del mundo, a local hotel and restaurant nesting on the cliff next to the lake. There we lounged around for the morning, jumping in the cold water of the lake to go swimming and sipping lemonade on the balconies overlooking the […]
3rd March 2022
Today at around 3:45 we started getting ready to summit Acatenango, ready for our departure time at 4 am. We put on our gear and left base camp, going through the volcanic ash terrain, again with an extremely high slope, which meant that for every 2 steps we took, we went back one as we […]
2nd March 2022
Today after waking up early once again (theres no sleep on gadventures trips) we were driven to the expedition company’s headquaters where we took the equipment we were going to need for the following 2 days. after driving for about an hour outside of the city, we grabbed breakfast and started our ascent of Acatenango. […]
1st March 2022
Today we woke up at 3:30 and had to rush to get onto the boat to the mainland by 3:45 where we boarded a bus for a 7-hour bus drive to Antigua Guatemala. our bus ride was a mostly smooth ride, except for the few times we got stopped by the cops for nothing and […]
28th February 2022
Today I woke up early at 5:30 to go on a kayak tour to go track down the howler monkeys who live around the hotel. We got on our kayak and first kayaked through the river which was extremely still, whilst our guide played the theme music to Avatar. As we reached the other bank […]
27th February 2022
Today after waking up around 7 we got into a bus and drove for about 5 hours to our next stop, Rio Dulce. There, we took our luggage off our bus and put it on board of a boat, whilst we boarded a second boat to our hotel for the next 2 nights. Our boats […]
26th February 2022
Today we woke up early at 5.30 am for us to reach the border to Guatemala, just before it opens. We reached the border at 6 and after lots of bureaucratic things we had to do, we finally managed to reach the third country on this trip, Guatemala. After all of this, we got back […]
25th February 2022
Today, we woke up a bit later than usual (7 am) to go on our day’s adventure. We decided to do the ATM cave (unfortunately it doesn’t dispense money) which stand for Actun Tunichil Muknal Cave. the Bus picked us up at 8 and drove us about an hour away to the start of the cave, […]