Monthly Archives: March 2016
Don’t go chasing Volcanoes
The only proof we needed that we were on an active volcano (besides the fact that we had just climbed up an active volcano), was when our guide walked over to the edge of a cliff and pulled out a shovel and started digging.
Nope!
Our two drivers who would take us from El Tunco, El Salvador, through Honduras, and into Leon, Nicaragua didn’t speak a lick of English, which we found a little odd. Usually when there are two guys riding in the bus, at least one of them can speak a little English and between a few of us on the bus who can speak a little Spanish, we can make it work. These guys pulled out their cell phones and typed words into Google Translate for us. If you’ve ever tried to use Google translate, you know how accurate it is, which is to say it’s not. I was staring at this guy’s phone, looking at both the english translation from Spanish and the Spanish he had typed into the box and I couldn’t understand either one of them.
Get Stamped
We had walked across the border from Belize into Guatemala and gotten our entrance stamp. We weren’t on a bus and as it turns out that was a good thing because others who had entered on busses weren’t so lucky.
Beware of the coyotes
Our nine AM bus we booked out of Antigua to San Pedro the day before was 15 minutes late to pick us up and we were getting worried. We had booked it with a nice lady who owned a travel agency across the street from our new hostel and I poked my head around the corner to see if she was open, and she was. So I decided to go see what was up.
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