On this trip, I can feel myself changing.
This is good – why travel if not to change ourselves and how we view the world? (Ok, to have fun too.)
Maybe it’s because I’m getting older. Not in a “holy crap, I’m an old lady at twenty-six” kind of way, of course. It’s just that [...]
Climbed Pacaya a few days ago. Funny, I’ve spent almost four months in Guatemala now, and I’m only now doing some of the tourist-y things. Pacaya last week, Tikal at the end of August when my brother comes to visit.
I think my soles might be melting!
Why? Lava!
The first time I went to San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala, I thought it was just ok. Yes, it was cheap and had lots of good food and bars. And of course, it comes with views of beautiful Lake Atitlan. But I kinda thought – hey, there isn’t much to do here besides hop from [...]
Everything I have tried to write, whether on here or in messages to friends, have sounded grumpy the last couple of days.
It should not be so… I am visiting Lake Atitlan for the umpteenth time, and it’s a place that always makes me feel peaceful.
There’s a lot of stuff going on for me [...]
When I imagine my future, I usually imagine it as a single vagabond type, living and working in different places, collecting many interesting friends but being a very “lone wolf” kinda gal. I want to live in every continent, I want to spend years working in refugee camps, I want to get jobs for NGOs [...]
1. Expensive
2. Phony
3. Full of wankers (heh, been spending too much time with Brits.)
I guess if you are looking for the so-called “real Guatemala” it is not here. It has flown the coop.
But then again, at least half the tourists around here are Guatemalans having a weekend escape to somewhere calm and beautiful. [...]
Already back in Guatemala after a short little trip to Mexico with a couple friends. Just went out to a cantina to have a couple beers with a friend. As the only foreigners in the three-table bar, I felt a bit out of place… but let me tell you it is great to go somewhere [...]
I was in San Cristobal de las Casas a year ago, and I definitely don’t remember this.
My friends and I climbed the stairs to a church on a hill – one of my favourite spots in this town. The view is amazing, and there are hundreds of colourful plastic flags draped around, all fluttering [...]
Crossing the Mexico-Guatemala border, things change.
On the Guatemalan side, the road zigs and zags. It couldn’t be more than 150 kilometers from Quetzaltenango to the frontera, but the journey takes about four hours. All because of the terrifyingly curvy highway that makes road travel in Guatemala so slow.
On the Mexican side, the road [...]
Alright, to give an overdue answer to the question of authenticity.
Here’s the thing: when at home in Canada, do I begrudge Indian restaurants, Chinese bubble tea shops, Ethiopian community centers, and Lebanese bakeries?
No.
I like them. (Especially, hehehe, because of the deliciousness they tend to bring. What a shallow view of diversity but hey, delicious [...]
