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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]