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  1. Spanglish Town, a Hot Waterfall and Birds on the Ground – Rio Dulce, Guatemala

    Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 17 February 2012

    We’d bounced over such bad roads to get to the famous natural pools at Semuc Champey that we figured a few dozen additional miles of the stuff wouldn’t kill us. So, on the advice of local tour van drivers who assured us that the shorter, more direct dirt backroad toward Rio Dulce was a breeze, we left the Semuc Champey area and headed southeast. The van drivers were right and the dirt road turned out to be in good condition as it took us through rolling hills until we’d descended to one of the quirkiest (and hottest) towns we saw in Guatemala.

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  2. Rio Dulce – Guatemala

    Blog: Viva Latin America! - 19 May 2011

    The ferry ride down the Rio Dulce is incredible. If you take the morning boat they actually turn it into a slower tour boat experience. You wind your way down a deep ravine where the steep hillsides are covered in jungle. Lining the edges of the river are white herons looking like giant flowers in [...]

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  3. A Little Relaxing…Unexpected Sweet Life on the Rio Dulce

    Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 23 June 2010

    I almost overlooked Guatemala’s sweetest little river; running through the south and emptying into the Caribbean Sea the Rio Dulce is actually incredibly beautiful and reminiscent of the swampy waters of the Everglades in Florida (my home-state for inquiring minds). Thankfully these rivers are void of the pesky American Alligator and instead perfectly tranquil to better ensure several days of relaxing dockside and canoeing myself around the narrow canals shooting off of the river like tree branches from a tree trunk. I really resisted my first few days relaxing on ...

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