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January 31, 2003
back in the lacandon, back in the rain
yesterday morning the french canadians and i decided that antigua was too touristy for us, we picked up and got a bus to guatemala city. i should have stayed there, it had a good feel, the opposite of touristy. anyways, they got a bus for honduras, hopefully we´ll meet up, tabarnac!, i headed north for coban, where i am. about 40 minutes outside of guate city, the bus broke down. my 4 hour journey quickly turned into 6. this appears to be a reoccuring theme in my trip. waited around for an hour, another bus showed up, and i sat next to this cool guatemalan guy. we talked about his kids in the u.s., about guatemalan politics, about what i should see in this country.
got into coban, which is on the southern edge of the lacandon jungle, the same jungle that stretches through chiapas, where i was a few weeks ago. it was drizzling when i got here, and i got a cheap room. went out and met a danish guy, we ended up playing chess, he beat up on a me but i got one game off him. he had been in lankin, said if the weather was good it´s amazing.
woke up this morning, the weather was the same, that is to say, shitty. met an aussie who´s heading straight to flores, near tikal, she was in lankin as were here two companions, a brit and another aussie from melbourne, i´m starting to recognize the melbourne accent much more quickly, more nasily, they all said lankin would suck in this weather. so i´m going to tikal today, another 5 hours in bus, next time i come to guate i´m going to lankin though, it´s said to be fantastic.
not much else, gotta go catcha a bus. with luck i´ll catch up with team tabarnac in livingston or somewhere else along the gringo trail.
Posted by bendan at January 31, 2003 07:03 AM
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