Central America, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua |
What is the Chicken Bus? For international backpackers, the term, “chicken bus” is synonymous with Central America. During six months of traveling through the region, I even heard a few locals use the term. Structurally they are former yellow school buses from the...
Central America, Guatemala |
Flores, Guatemala to Tikal Most tourists run in and out of Flores, Guatemala, an Island-town located in the northeastern Guatemalan state, El Petén. That they go from Flores, Guatemala to Tikal directly is respectable. No judgment here. (Though I’m going to make a...
Central America, Guatemala, Mexico |
“Ay, es que estamos en la cabañuela de January.” / “Oh, we’re in January’s cabañuela.” If you grew up in the Latin American countryside your grandparents may have said this. This city mouse heard the term, “Las Cabañuelas” or Cabanuelas in English for the first time...
Central America, Guatemala, Travel Moments and Mishaps |
My teacher suggested a field trip for my last day of Spanish classes. I invited friends and their teachers to taste wine and chocolate in San Juan del Obispo, just outside Antigua, Guatemala. We took group photos, over-indulged and arrived back in town before noon for...