Yesterday we left Copan and sat in an overcrowded minibus for 6 hours. The bus company was not the most organised. They overbooked which meant someone ended up having to be dumped on a different bus company who didn´t really want her plus about 20 mins into the journey someone´s backpack which was strapped to the top of the bus started falling off and would have gone completely if a couple of people hadn´t stuck their arms out the windows to hang on while the driver pulled over.
Unfortunately we´ve ended up in a bit of a dodgy part of town in Guatemala City. The hotel we are in has it´s front door locked at all times and we take most of our money out of our wallets when we head outside. That said, if we stick together and only head out during daylight hours we should be right. Walking around this morning looking for the bus station was certainly interesting. As well as bus ticket out of here, all we wanted was a place that would serve a cup of coffee with milk. No-one here has milk! I saw enough cows in trucks on the way here so how is it possible they don´t have a milk or even the ever-popular "powdered milk substitute"? Maybe in the nicer parts of town you can get milk. This place feels grimy, old and has many, many people who look like they are barely surviving.
We had hoped to catch Shrek 3 at a cinema somewhere today but it appears that the movie cinema is only open in the morning. Maybe because it´s a Sunday. Hard to say. Anyway, we get out of here tomorrow morning on a hopefully nice bus which will take us to Tikal so we can see some more Mayan ruins.
While I will miss Copan and the family I stayed with, my bowels are celebrating (quietly!) being out of there. The food wasn´t always in agreeance with them. Hopefully they will have a better time of it from now on. :) Yeah, a few notes on bowels had to happen sooner or later. Very much looking forward to being in a place where I can drink the tap water. Only a couple of weeks to go before that´s possible as that´s when I reach LA in the States.
3 comments:
Guatemala City is hardcore dodge, I didn't like it at all. Are you going to Antiqua at all? It's like a fully old fashioned city and heaps nice by touristy. Tikal is pretty fun, Cara slept the entire time we were in Tikal but I thought it was ace.
Are you coming back soon? No one has received any mail for months.
Can't believe you got married - you've changed man!
Damo,
I wouldn't get too excited about reaching L.A. it probably isn't much different to Guatemala city - run down, dirty and well, crap.
certainly wouldn't drink their tap water either!
Don´t tell me L.A. is crap! It´s not gonna be crap, it´s gonna be awesome and have movie theatres and beaches and girls in bikinis roller skating along the beach and there will be dogs that are made of chocolate and when they walk by you just pick one up and take a bite of it´s milk chocolatey goodness! Hell yeah!
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