colombia – cartegena de indias

Plaza de los coches
Most of what we read about Cartegena focused on the beautiful spanish colonial side of this city. That part certainly exists and is quite visually inspiring but there are other parts to the city that we heard little about. One book referred to it as a museum but in fact it is [...]

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honduras, nicaragua, costa rica

 

Beautiful sunset in Utila.Okay, so we were nearing the end of January and had to figure out how to get to Colombia. The problem is that it’s quite expensive to fly so we decided to bus some of it and get a glimpse at some other Central American countries.
First of all we’d been hearing that [...]

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chris and aska at rio lampara

Claude and Helene Milette

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helping out the dentists

7 30 am in Nebaj. Here you can see the bus that was going to take all the volunteers up to Xix.
So there we were in Xix (read previous post). We didn´t know what to expect and how we could help. I said that I could help with translation as most of the dentists/volunteers [...]

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nebaj and xix, guate

Nebaj up in the highlands.

A street in Nebaj.
In Antigua we met a woman, Romelia Gonzales, that has been living in Guatemala for the past 18 years. She is the most interesting and driven person that we have met so far on this trip. There will be more about her a bit later. For [...]

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