Lava Toasted Goodness y Mexico!

Hola all,

Calley and i have made it to Guatamala. We hit Antigua (kind of a cooler, slightly more rustic Cuzco) sometime last week. Sorry i have lost count of the days. So we spent some time walking around antigua, and generally relaxing after travelling straight for almost a week. But we did manage to get out to a club where a man (namely the coolest cat i have ever seen in my life) and also a member of the buena vista social club, was playing salsa. Pretty damn cool. We were still pretty shattered from the bus trip, so it wasnt a late one.

Anyway the main point of this blog was to brag about toasting marshmellows on a river of lava....

So the volcano is Pacaya (apparently named after a plantation of Pacaya plants that got run over by some lava in 2000) and is just near Guatamala city. You grab a bus out there from antigua, climb up the side of the volcano (about 1.5 hrs) and end up near a kind of river of lava.. Although i was expecting an actual liquid river, it was still amazing. I guess when we were there the lava was slightly cooler and it just looked (deceptively) like a river of coals from a fire. But about 700 degrees hotter. Luckily no one died, despite the guatemalan health and safety standards being suprisingly low. And the views from there were absolutely amazing.. (will put up photos soon!)

Pt 2

Guatamala y Mexico!!!

Okkkaayyy.... I am happy to finally say we finally reached mexico. The rest of Guatamala was amazing though. We went out to one of the protected national parks called Semuc Champey, and spent some time there in a really nice eco lodge, met some crazy people, explored bat caves, tubed down freezing rivers, caved through another cave with only candles, sauna-ed and generally partied and relaxed...

Umm ok, after that was Tikal, which was fairly amazing. Huge. Then a long and incredibly expensive detour through Belize to arrive in mexico..

We have only been in Mexico 2 days, but its amazing. Amazing spicy tacos, 1.125 litres of Sol, for about 2 dollars, white sand and crystal blue water... what else do you want.

Ok i will do the photos and things soon. But dont have much time, so until 3 weeks (if your in OZ) or maybe longer if you live elsewhere..

CYYAAAA