A plate of veggies for tea!

On the backwaters of Rio Dulce
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Flo says:

We have also broken up the rather uncomfortable bus journeys with a good

measure of speed boats and "lanchas" the funniest of which was a couple of days ago in the middle of torrential rain all of the passengers (numbering

about 20 or so) sat underneath a huge tarpulin (sp?) and

grinned at one another hopefully!

We reached Livingston which has a bad rep but seems nice enough. The journey up the Rio Dulce was worth it for the scenery and wildlife, a really beautiful trip.

Em says:

Guatemala did not really get too many of our tourist Pounds as we kind of used it to travel through to other places. However the journeys were great especially when I had my first experience of a chicken bus (especially when a man got on with a chicken). The best part of the travelling was done by boat through a massive gorge that was know to have graffiti on it. Both flo and I were excited by this having images of murals and symbolic motifs, Instead we found it really was just graffiti and it looked a bit like a school table top. It kind of ruined the beautiful view.