Guatemala

Last picture is from the beginning, and the last in the end…

We arrived Guatemala and went to Antigua to meet Marita`s friend Helene who had been in Guatemala for 2 months with her class. She gave us plenty of information about Guatemala and she also recommended we should travel to Belice.

So the next day we headed for Belice. It did take us a few days to get there, though. So the next night we spent in a bungalow in Rio Dulce. It was great except from the bugs… It was very nice there, like we were in a jungle movie.

From Rio Dulce (the town), we went by boat up the river Rio Dulce to Livingston, a small and cozy town by the sea. We went by a sightseeing boat and it did a stop by some kind of pool with VERY hot water! It was all natural. So we had to try to walk in it, though we almost burned ourselves.

We spent the day in Livingston on a not very nice beach. But we got a nice picture of a coconut…

Then we went to Belice (the post above).

When we came back to Guatemala again, we went to a hotel nearby Semuc Chempey. Early one morning, a boy and a girl from Switzerland, a guide and the two of us went to some caves. We wore only our bathing suites, some shoes and a candle in our hand. We had to walk, climb and swim in the caves for about 2 hours. It was very exciting, and a bit frightening wondering what could be in the water…

When we came out from the caves, we sailed down the river and back to the hotel in each our tubes. Those on the picture are the guys from Switzerland . Nice people.

We also went to Semuc Chempey. That's where we're bathing in crystal clear water.

One of the pictures is from inside a chicken bus, which are the local buses. They put way to many people in there, so there isn't much place for each one, but it is charming though.

The two first pictures are from the second last day. We went to the coast by the Pacific Ocean to see the black beach in Monte Rico. Monte Rico is a charming small town, and the black beach is amazing. It is because of the volcanoes that the sand is all black, it is from lava!