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Day 14 – Acatenango

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. […]

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Day 13 – Antigua

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 […]

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Day 12 – Howler Monkeys kayaking

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 […]

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Day 11 – Rio Dulce

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 […]

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Day 10 – Tikal

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 […]

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Day 9 – Actun Tunichil Muknal Cave

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, […]

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Day 8 – San Ignacio

Today we woke up at 6 am and I decided to go try out a local speciality for breakfast called fry jack, which is fried bread with a stuffing of your choice. so I got a fried ham and cheese fry jack. we then went back to the hotel and I grabbed all of my […]

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Day 7 – Blue Hole Diving

Today I woke up at 5am and tried not to make noise when I woke up to not disturb my roommates but alas, i accidentaly dropped my metal bottle so i ended up waking everybody. I then left the hotel and walked in the empty island to reach the diving center. There they served us […]

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Day 6 – Caye Caulker Snorkeling

Today I woke up early around 6:30 and decided to get out of bed and walk around before my meeting at 8am at the diving place. So i got ready, the first one in my room to do so and went out into the city. I went to get cash but ended up stopping at […]

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Day 5 – Playa to Caye Caulker

Today we woke up at 3:30 am to go on to our next country Belize. We got on the van at 4am and drove a very unconfortable 3 hours until we reached the border. There we had to go through many many bureaucratic hoops before we would be allowed to go into Belize. First we […]

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