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Granada -> El Gigante

7 June 2013

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B & Elan were in Granada until late Tuesday before going to the capital to take a plane to the Corn Islands to go scuba diving. That meant we spent the day hanging out, a lot of it trying to avoid the horrible heat by chilling in their hostel. The same weather that I can [...]

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San Salvador

19 May 2013

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I’d been planning on spending a couple of days in San Salvador, but ended up there for a week. I got to eat a ridiculous number of pupusas, they seem to be eaten even more frequently than tacos in Mexico, hang out at a beach house and scuba dive for the first time through a [...]

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Back in the UK

17 April 2013

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A month in Cuba isn’t really enough to see everything that the country has to offer by bike. I could have got a visa extension, but there was something more important that meant I couldn’t stay – my grandparents’ 60th wedding anniversary. I’d promised them more than a year earlier that I’d be home for [...]

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Tikal

2 February 2013

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As we weren’t going to Belize, we’d be heading back through Flores after Tikal, so we decided to leave some non-crucial things at Buenas Cosas to make the bikes lighter. Memo tried telling us that it was dangerous to ride to Tikal but, with two years of experience so far, I was pretty un-moved. The [...]

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Guate -> Cobán

27 January 2013

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The ride to the bus terminal was not particuarly eventful. Rafael had told us about how Guate has terrible traffic, but we’d not really noticed it. There were a few occasions when drivers pulled off death defying moves of pulling out in front of trucks and hoping they’d stop, and the horrific exhaust fumes continued. [...]

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Day off in Cobán

27 January 2013

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On our day off in Cobán we went to Lanquín and Semuc Champey, a town and national park about 70km east of Cobán. It was out of our way to bike there, and so we took a collectivo, which are basically minibuses to go to the small towns around Cobán so the people can take [...]

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City of Guatemala

25 January 2013

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Rafael went back to his other house with plenty of everything to give to the needy people he worked to help. We had originally planned on hopping a bus to Cobán, but a late offer of a couch in the downtown came up and we figured it’d be a bad idea to turn down the [...]

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Volcan Pacaya and Guate

24 January 2013

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We were awake just after 5am and got ready just in time to take a “chicken bus” to the nearby town of Escuintla. They are derogatively called chicken buses to indicate that can take anything, even a chicken, on them. They are old US school buses that have been changed a bit, mainly by making [...]

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In Antigua

23 January 2013

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Antigua proved to be a much more interesting city than Xela. It’s main highlight for me at least, was similar to that of Lago Atitlán, volcanoes. There’s something about having volcanoes looming over that makes a place look amazing. The main downside from our stay was how all the tourist sites wanted to charge us [...]

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Parícutin

19 December 2012

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When Pedro had been in primary school, a teacher of his taught him about the youngest volcano in the world, Parícutin. It was born in 1943, and to Pedro that was the greatest thing in the world. So when he came to Mexico he decided that we had to go, even though it was one [...]

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Xalapa – Veracruz

9 October 2012

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I woke up feeling much better for my rest day. I made sure that I got my suntan lotion on even though when I headed out it was pre-dawn. I’d learnt my lessons from the previous days and didn’t really want to get sunstroke again. Heading to Veracruz meant that I had an easy day [...]

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Aguascalientes -> León

21 June 2012

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After a rest day hanging out with Cain and his friends, we were back on the road. I only had 8 days to get to Mexico City before my test at UNAM so while there were more things to do, such as going to the hot-springs, there wasn’t enough time. It was generally overcast, and [...]

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