Sunday, April 1, 2007

"Driven from the mainland to the heart of the Caribbean"

yep, im still alive. Ive been away for a while. First living in homes and then on a trip to Tikal ruins and the Caribbean. But the trip went ok. Parts were good other parts were horrible. We left really early on wednsday morning. But the two days before the trip i got really sick I almost didnt go, but at the last second i changed my mind and jumped in the car. The 9 hour ride to Tikal was miserable. The next morning we went to the Mayan ruins. it was so much fun just to walk around and climb up the temples. Again, we got in trouble from security for climbing around on the wrong parts. i even threw up on the top of the biggest temple in central America – my proudest moment. allways seems like we never have enough time to spend at these places. we left from there and drove to the coast of Belize, on the Caribbean.
To stay in Guat we have to renew our Visas, which means having to leave the country for a while. Belize was a crazy country. Really threw me off when everyone spoke English. - there was also ton of asian people mennonites - something you don’t see where I live. On the coast, where we stayed, its all blacks. We were one of the few white people in the whole city. We took a boat out to a typical Caribbean island with white sand and palm trees and spent the day snorkeling in the reef.
The next morning we drove back into guatamala, and stayed at a place called Livingston. Its an island just off the coast of guatemala. the only way to get there is an hour long boat ride through rivers and around the islands - the whole area used to be where all the pirates would hide out and keep their treasure. you can still see pirate forts there. Agian, the whole city was black, except this are was a lot more touristy, so we didn’t stand out as much.
It was such an amazing trip, but i felt sick for most of it and couldn’t eat much – which is the only thing you do on road trips.

2 comments:

Abby Mommy said...

Hey John, Kim here...
Looks like all is well over in the Guate. Life is good over here too! The offer is still up to come chill here if ya want :)

Anonymous said...

You don't talk about my darling sister katherine enough in you bloggy. you should mention her more, after all she is the undercover almighty ruler of Canada.. and all countries surronding...