Lanquin Travel Blogs

If You Are In Guatemala, You Should Come HereIt gets a separate review, but El Retiro must make the list of the World's Top Ten Hostels. Lanquin is alright as a place, but the situation of this place a little out of town is cracking.  A river runs through it on which one can go tubing or kayak…

I decided to go to guatemala to improve my spanish, work as a volunteer and travelling around central america. why guatemala? cause it was the cheapest country and in my opinion the most interesting one.

Pictures from my trip

This was a five week trip through parts of Central America. I spent most of my time in Guatemala. I had a loose plan that included Antigua, Tikal, El Mirador, islands in Belize and Copan in Honduras.

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After a very long bus ride from Guatemala City to Coban and then onto a minibus from Coban to Lanquin, we came across the most brilliant hostel ever!! The rooms are all cabinas built on stilts and set across the sloping hillside. A path lead from the top Cabina and reception area down to the river …

We definitely had our first frightening experience during our drive to Lanquín.  It´s only a little over 50 km from Cobán, but it took us nearly 2hrs to get there because of the bad road.  Talk about crazy! At one point, the mini-bus had to pull over because the road (or should I say p…

So like I said earlier, we signed up to go rafting and today is the day... there were not enough people for 2 boats so Danielle could not join us but she will be heading East with us in the morning so we can find other fun things to do together in Lake Isabel and Rio Dulce. Breakf…

mit zwischenstop in antigua geht es am mittwoch mit einem shuttle nach lanquin, etwa in der mitte des landes. dort machen wir noch am selben abend eine tour durch die grutas de lanquin, ein tropfsteinhoehlensystem. diese hoehlen sind nicht nur fuer die vielen verschiedenen steinformationen, we…

Loving London, new adventures and travelling to Central America for sunshine, humidty, thunderstorms and good times.

So here we are in Lanquin, and it is.. in the words of Nick Farkas ´incredible´. And guess what? This time we actually manged to get into the hostel that we wanted. The El Retiro lodge is literally amazing. (Photos will be coming tomorrow, I don´t have my little USB thing with me now) We managed…

Tour of Latin America 2007 onward

I booked a package trip to semuc champey with the company located in the lobby of my hotel.  The trip promised everything i wanted to do, all in one day and was cheaper (150) than any other company in town.  Once we arrived the guide took us on a hike that lasted about 90 minutes.  T…

Amazing day! 1. Cave tour by candle light 2. Bridge jump 3. Local chocolate 4. Climb to view point 5. Swimming in pools 6. Trip to where river disappears into the ground 7. Climbed down rope ladder to where river appears from underneath rocks 8. Jumped from rock cave under waterfall into fa…

Guatemala was the most memorable trip so far! I'm not convinced the country is really ready for tourism yet.