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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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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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A Little Travel Memory…Sweating the Insignificant Details Sucks
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 29 March 2011
Travel Memories: Kids Paddle down the Rio Dulce, Guatemala These young Guatemalan children paddling around the lily pads on the Rio Dulce (Sweet River, in Spanish) came at a perfect time on my four hour boat ride down the Rio Dulce. The thing is, I was so frustrated just minutes before I spotted them paddling amongst the lily pads down a side snake of water off the main river. Our guide was being tight lipped about why our boat was stopping every 20 minutes down to a putter, but I had a sneaking ...
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Guatemala, A Backpacker Haven
Blog: Backpacker Bucks - 23 December 2010
Guatemala is full of adventure and fantastic sights. You will be amazed and want to return again and again.
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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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Hot Spring Waterfall at El Paraiso
Blog: The Road Chose Me - 50,000kms of ebb and flow - 5 February 2010
We continue to explore Guatemala, staying a night in a tree house at the Finca Ixobel, a working farm that provides accommodation, great meals and a bar. My eyes light up like a child when I hear the food is an all you can eat buffet and when told the uneaten food will go to [...]
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Hot Spring Waterfall at El Paraiso
Blog: The Road Chose Me - 50,000kms of ebb and flow - 5 February 2010
We continue to explore Guatemala, staying a night in a tree house at the Finca Ixobel, a working farm that provides accommodation, great meals and a bar. My eyes light up like a child when I hear the food is an all you can eat buffet and when told the uneaten food will go to [...]
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