Lanquin and Semuc Champey

Rettelse: Sostrene sisters er ikke fra Vik(MY BAD!)men fra Rosendal (et nydelig sted ved Hardangerfjorden, med Norges eneste baroni), har jeg akkurat faatt opplyst fra sida her naa, beklager det i forrige innlegg..

So:
We finally left San Pedro after 2 and a half weeks stutying hard:) I got really sick on the bus from San Pedro to Coban and my entire breakfast almost made it up again to see the clear sky, but I avoided it with a scream, bought Lays potato chips with original flavour(salt) and the rest of the trip was fine:) The road from San Pedro isn´t the best in the world, as it goes from the Laguna and up up up the mountain side..:) Spent the entire day(Saturday) in the car and on the bus, traveling through an amazing landscape, Guatemala is so beautiful! Unbelievable! (K is fixing some photos any day now, it is just that he has got this idea in his head that he has to buy a boat and sail home, or even better, by a boat he can live in back home, so all his time on internet is spent looking at boat adds... Hm..) Arrived in Coban late(well it was 8, but we were exhausted), and all 4 of us(still going strong along the road with Ragnhild and Kjersti)stuffed our bags into the dorm room and found a great pizzaplace! Totally king;)
Sunday, well, we tried to start early, but that didn´t really happen, well kind of, and we found a bus to Lanquin, further away hidden in the mountains.. Took 1 1/2 hour, and we arrived in backpacker heaven, a small place with a giant hostel, very popular amongst Lonely Planet readers(that´s how we ended up there..) Stuffed our bags in the dorm again and had lunch and several hours of playing cards(spardame, the sisters are unbeatable!), it was raining and cold and not the best place to be when it is raining and cold, as the point of being there is either nature or nature.. So, when the sun finally looked out at us after all those hours, Ragnhild and I went on a Panther safari(on our own, crazy chicks), and saw an old church, the entire town in 5 minutes and a guy maybe being robbed, I´m not sure. He was laying alongside the road, sleeping( I thought he was dead, but I´m a drama queen), and people(many!) were searching through his pockets.. Looking for identification so they could call his wife and get her to get him? Not so sure..
After the very succesful panther safari, we had dinner. And I am getting hungry, so I have to cut all the details that aren´t necessary! Monday, raining, cardgames, went t some huge caves in the afternoon, where we could walk inside the mountain for 500 meters, but the cave itself is much bigger, just that the lights stops after 500 meters, and no one really knows where it ends, hehe:) Amazing stalagmites and stalagtites or what you call them:) An adventure;) (Photos coming, or what, Kristoffer?)
Tuesday, tried to get up early to go to Semuc Champey, further into the mountains and valleys, a nature park.The best part was the ride there, in the back of a truck, beautiful, and very genuine;) The park was good too, a nice mirador(viewpoint on top of a mountain), we saw monkeys and the big attraction was a natural limestone "bridge" where the river floated underneath a layer of limestone, and in the limestone it was several natural pools with crystal clear (icecold) water! Nice swimming;) That must be one of natures most pretty places in the world, quite spectacular! (Photos coming..) (Or what, Kristoffer?) And then the ride back to Lanquin in the back of a truck, grrrreat times;)
And now I´m hungry for lunch, so I´ll tell you all about Coban and Flores another time:) We arrived in Flores last night, so it is not much to tell yet, but we´re heading for the beach now:)
Have a good one!
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