This weekend was really intense. We got up at 3am on Saturday to catch the first Chicken bus that brought us, Maida and some other family members to Santa Clara. From there, in complete darkness, we made our way up to the top of a mountain called “Indian’s nose”. It was a short but intense […]

One of the goals of our world trip is to get to know the people and the culture of the countries we travel to. And as we consider language as the key to access people and their culture, we decided to stay in San Pedro at Lake Atitlan for two weeks, live with a local […]

After saying goodbye to the lovely city of Flores we continued our trip to the rio dulce to a town with the same name. By boat we reached our hotel, the Tijax jungle lodge, and moved into a room right on the water. This was nice as we had the sound of the jungle and […]

Isla de Flores is so tiny and picturesque it almost seems unreal. There is only space for maybe a hundred houses and you can cross the entire island by walking in about 10 minutes. Similar to the old town of Campeche all its houses are painted in a bright colors and their doors are  artistically […]

From San Ignacio we made our way to Tikal in Guatemala. There in the rainforest of northern Guatemala lies an abandoned city that was once the center of the Mayan empire. Tikal flourished between 200 and 850 A.D. and was the most powerful city besides Calakmul in todays Mexico. At one point it even conquered […]