Ash and Holly’s adventures in the Americas

After a lovely week relaxing in Belize, we had an uneventful border crossing into Guatemala and onto our first destination: Flores. Flores : Flores is a town in Northen Guatemala, which sits on an island on Lake Peten Itzá (these days connected by a causeway to the mainland). It’s a lovely place with cobbled streets and colourful houses, and is surrounded by water. In fact, there had been some flooding in the town which meant some streets were cut off by the water levels.  We spent a few days here enjoying wandering the streets, watching sunsets over the lake, and experiencing the local Christmas festivities.  From the 7th December onwards, the Guatemalan people start celebrating Christmas with daily rituals and events. On the 7th December they have the burning of the devil, lighting big bonfires on every street. We also happened across a street festival one night, with lots of street food, drinks and festivities!  Whilst we stayed in Flores, we made a visit to Tikal, one...

After spending two months in Mexico, we decided it was finally time to move on to the next part of our trip - Belize.  We were a bit apprehensive about the border crossing from Mexico to Belize (we had heard lots of bad stories!), but actually it went ok. We got a local bus across the border and straight into Belize City, which was cheap, and the bus driver and conductor were really friendly and helpful. The bus was an old school bus, so the seats were very small and neither of us could fit our legs in! Once we got into Belize lots of locals got on and off the bus at various intervals so it took quite a while and we were glad when we finally arrived in Belize City. From there we had a short walk to the ferry terminal, and caught the ferry to our first and only stop in Belize - Caye Caulker.  Caye Caulker is a small Carribean island off the coast of Belize, surrounded by a reef. The island is very small - you can walk everywhere and there are no cars. We spent a week here in a ...