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Jump to the full entry & travel map Antigua Guatemala, Western Highlands, Guatemala Ok, I came here to this nice lake for one reason... to party hard after so many spanish lessons. they are nuts here. The hostel organised a laughing gas party and the canister was bigger than me LOL. This is where we found the unexplained still beating heart which came out of a dogs mouth, still the weirdest...
Jump to the full entry & travel map Lanquin, Lanquin, Guatemala Lanquin is deep in a stunning valley, with river flowing through, i loved it here! The scenery is breathtakin, the next day i booked to do the caving tour. You get taken through water filled caves with a candle, it was amazing !.. then we went tubing for an hour down the peacful river ...then in the afternoon left to ourselves...
The majority of those arrested at the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iowa, were Guatemalan. What if you were an Iowan who was hanging around illegally in Guatemala? From the State Department:A valid U.S. passport is required for all U.S. citizens, regardless of age, to enter Guatemala and to depart Guatemala for return [...]
Jump to the full entry & travel map Antigua Guatemala, Western Highlands, Guatemala Hola Blogreaders, Its been a while since the last blog, we have either not been in place long enough to write it, or its been expensive or we have been in the jungle. A fair bit has happened since the last blog. We left La Palma in El Salvador and headed for Copan, Honduras. This is the site of the famous...
Fires are common in southern Mexico and northern Central America during the February-May dry season. In mid-May 2008, scores of fires were burning across the Yucatan, Guatemala, and Honduras.
Director Tomas Leach joins us to discuss his feature documentary All The Drunken Horsemen, which saw him travel to the isolated Mayan town of Todos Santos in the mountains of Guatemala to capture the preparations for its legendary annual drunken horse race. Showlinks Tomas Leach 3 Minute Wonders FourDocs Fabrica
The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) announced the format of the 2008 CONCACAF Champions League today. 24 teams from Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Pamana, the Caribbean and the United States will take part in the tournament that will begin in late August and conclude in April of 2009. The...
The venues for World Cup Qualifying were announced today. They are: Sept. 10: USA-T&T in Bridgeview, Ill., 8 p.m. ET (ESPN2) Oct. 11: USA-Cuba in Washington, 4 p.m. (ESPN Classic) Nov. 19: USA-Guatemala in Commerce City, Colo., 10 p.m. (ESPN2) While this is a solid set of venues, the real focus is on the upcoming friendlies against England, [...]
So I had a wonderful trip to Guatemala overall. I learned a ton of Spanish, saw some great sights, and all. But then the very last 5 days of my trip, spent in Antigua, Guatemala, were terrible. (Warning, graphic description ahead.) After eating a salad (I know, I know, I should have known better) in Antigua (very [...]
Jump to the full entry & travel map San Pedro, Guatemala Hi All, Well we have had a few adventures since the last blog. We climbed an actve volcano Pacaya. Last erupted in 2006 spewing a river of lava 100 metres deep, filling a deep ravine on the side of the volcano.
Peasant farmer Jose Lopez-Gregorio, 32, left his wife and five children behind in Guatemala with two bags of corn, barely enough food for one month, when he decided to find work in the United States. Detained crossing the Mexican border and held in an Arizona immigration center, he felt guilty, h… Read the full story
Reporters Without Borders today voiced its dismay at the murder of Jorge Mérida Pérez, of national daily Prensa Libre, who was shot dead at his home in Coatepeque, Quetzaltenango department in the west of the country on 10 May.The 40-year-old, whose family said he had recently been threatened, was the second journalist to be murdered in Guatemala since the start of the year.Mérida Pérez was...
All The Drunken Horsemen (2007) High in the mountains of Guatemala lies the small Mayan town of Todos Santos. Each year, on November 1st the town celebrates it's legendary drunken horse race. This film follows Ramon as he prepares to race on the town's holy day for the first time. He follows 9 days of prayer, preparation [...]
This report provides information on Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama. Each country has its own chapter and covers the following subjects. Key Statistics Market and Industry Overviews Regulatory Environment Major Players (fixed and mobile) Infrastructure Mobile Voice and Data Markets Internet, VoIP Broadband (DSL, cable, wireless) Convergence Executive Summary...
