Published at: 11:09 am - Saturday September 06 2008
The guidebooks are fairly clear on this subject: in Guatemala, you should avoid going places at night. (In fact, there are those who think you would be wise to avoid the place in the daytime, too. The ever-cheerful US State Department has a page on Guatemala, which informs you that you may encounter incidents “including, but [...]
Published at: 09:08 pm - Monday August 25 2008
We saw our first Mayan ruins at just after 5 AM. We’d booked a “sunrise tour”, which required being outside our hotel and ready to go at 3:30 AM (in case it’s been a while since you’ve been up at 3:30 AM, here’s the skinny: it’s incredibly, mind-poundingly early) followed by an hour squeezed into [...]