Hello together,
we are a little bit late to Update our blog but as we where travelling for the last 48 hours in order to get to the Mexican border we weren`t able to write before.
Still, the last week was the most amazing week we had so far. Last weekend we stayed for 3 days in Livingston in the caribean coast. As you can imagine did we what everyone is doing in the caribean: nothing - basically hanging 3 days in our hammocks and reading (and got some cold beers in order to refresh us). We didn`t stay too long over there because Guatemala doesn`t have beaches on this side of their coast and as we will bee in the caribean in Mexico Honduras and Nicaragua we decided to move on.
The next step was Tikal. Tikal is the biggest known city of the Mayas (in peak time more then 200.000 people where living there) in the middle of the Guatemalian jungle. We went there at 5am in order to see the sunrise over the jungle sitting on the highest Mayan temple over there. Unfortunately it was very foggy so we couln`d see the sun (well, its a good thing as the rain forest gives us the waether we have in order to live on this planet - so it would have been a bad thing if it wouln`t been foggy in the morning ;) )but just sit there and listen how the rain forest "woke up" was amazing. First some birds, then more and more noises where to hear until the gorillas took over the scenery with there territory screams. A very unique experiance.
Later on we went to Semuc Champey. Well, what can we say about this place? If you die in Semuc Champey and you go to haven you will ask god if he can send you back - because there is no way heaven could top the beautiness of this place. Clear water surounded by high hills in the jungle. Both of us have seen a lot in our lives, but never something like that. If you want to do one thing more in your live: Go to Semuc Champey!!!
After two days of Semuc we went into a samll village near by as we met a woman from the evangelic church who was presenting a movie in this village. The movie was in Qéchi (the Maya language) so we didn`t understand a word but being in this village between the indeginous people was as well something very special.
Maybe a word more to the transportation in Guatemala: IT¨S CRAP!!!!
An example: To go from Livingston to Tikal we needed to take a boat at 6am. Well, it sayed 6am but as the boat wasn`t full we had to wait until 7am. Once arrived in the harbour we needed to take a minibus for 3 hours. There are 14 seats in the minibus - and 25(!) passengers. 3 of them had to do "Bus sufing" (beeing outside of the bus and grab whatever they could in order not to fall down). After the minibus we had to change to a bigger bus - but not less crouded: This time we had to stand for 4 more hours in a bus who was passing through the jungle streets with a very high humility. We arrived at 7pm (13 hours of trip) at our destination, a trip of maybe 200 KM. Welcome to Guatemala.
Now we are in San Cristobal de las Casas in Mexiko. We will be here until Wednesday, then we will go to the villages for the human right observation. We will try to write a short blog tomorrow to explain a little bit more what we are doing and in what situation the people a living in.
Saludos a todo que leen eso
Roman & Carla
PS: Pictures will follow tomorrow - the internet here is too slow for that
we are a little bit late to Update our blog but as we where travelling for the last 48 hours in order to get to the Mexican border we weren`t able to write before.
Still, the last week was the most amazing week we had so far. Last weekend we stayed for 3 days in Livingston in the caribean coast. As you can imagine did we what everyone is doing in the caribean: nothing - basically hanging 3 days in our hammocks and reading (and got some cold beers in order to refresh us). We didn`t stay too long over there because Guatemala doesn`t have beaches on this side of their coast and as we will bee in the caribean in Mexico Honduras and Nicaragua we decided to move on.
The next step was Tikal. Tikal is the biggest known city of the Mayas (in peak time more then 200.000 people where living there) in the middle of the Guatemalian jungle. We went there at 5am in order to see the sunrise over the jungle sitting on the highest Mayan temple over there. Unfortunately it was very foggy so we couln`d see the sun (well, its a good thing as the rain forest gives us the waether we have in order to live on this planet - so it would have been a bad thing if it wouln`t been foggy in the morning ;) )but just sit there and listen how the rain forest "woke up" was amazing. First some birds, then more and more noises where to hear until the gorillas took over the scenery with there territory screams. A very unique experiance.
Later on we went to Semuc Champey. Well, what can we say about this place? If you die in Semuc Champey and you go to haven you will ask god if he can send you back - because there is no way heaven could top the beautiness of this place. Clear water surounded by high hills in the jungle. Both of us have seen a lot in our lives, but never something like that. If you want to do one thing more in your live: Go to Semuc Champey!!!
After two days of Semuc we went into a samll village near by as we met a woman from the evangelic church who was presenting a movie in this village. The movie was in Qéchi (the Maya language) so we didn`t understand a word but being in this village between the indeginous people was as well something very special.
Maybe a word more to the transportation in Guatemala: IT¨S CRAP!!!!
An example: To go from Livingston to Tikal we needed to take a boat at 6am. Well, it sayed 6am but as the boat wasn`t full we had to wait until 7am. Once arrived in the harbour we needed to take a minibus for 3 hours. There are 14 seats in the minibus - and 25(!) passengers. 3 of them had to do "Bus sufing" (beeing outside of the bus and grab whatever they could in order not to fall down). After the minibus we had to change to a bigger bus - but not less crouded: This time we had to stand for 4 more hours in a bus who was passing through the jungle streets with a very high humility. We arrived at 7pm (13 hours of trip) at our destination, a trip of maybe 200 KM. Welcome to Guatemala.
Now we are in San Cristobal de las Casas in Mexiko. We will be here until Wednesday, then we will go to the villages for the human right observation. We will try to write a short blog tomorrow to explain a little bit more what we are doing and in what situation the people a living in.
Saludos a todo que leen eso
Roman & Carla
PS: Pictures will follow tomorrow - the internet here is too slow for that
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