We will search for a yacht to Caribbean islands

Hello, Few days ago we finally received our long-waited Canon 350D digital camera after we bought it online in USA. We hope that from now on we will be publishing more photo-stories. Saturday morning we will head for Veracruz state in Mexico. Our aim is to celebrate Christmas in any of Caribbean islands. We want to search for a lift to the islands by a private yacht or any other kind of boat. Looking...[read more]

People in Mexico City

Originally written for CoolWorks.com Is it true that Mexico City is one of the most dangerous cities in the world? To be honest, we do not know it. We can say that Mexico City is overcrowded with people and cars, full of smog, and busy, but somehow marvellous. Until now, we did not encounter any problems. In contrary, we met wonderful people over here. First, we stayed with my friend Katheryn,...[read more]

We are again in Mexico!

Hello friends, We are in Mexico! 🙂 Yes, yes we made it through the border, even we were illegals in Guatemala for 6 months. We are in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, visiting HospitlityClub.org members. Among them – Kjell – brother of the founder of Hospitality Club founder Veit. We met Kjell 2 years ago in Lithuania, and it was nice to meet him again. Oh, the border crossing. Nothing...[read more]

Near the Mexican border

For two days we are already staying in Tejutla, a village North of San Marcos, which is not far from the Mexican border. We stay here with a family of eleven members. The door to it’s house is always open, people are coming and going the whole day long, which makes it difficult to us to figure out who belongs to the family and who does not. In a few days we will head towards the Mexican border....[read more]

Plan A did not work

Hi, We are in Guatemala City since last Friday. One of the most important missions here was to get entrance stamp into our passports in the Migration Office. Unfortunately they refused to give us a stamp since we have no Belize exit stamp. Now we will have to act according to the plan B 🙂 Meanwhile, the bacteries in Katja´s interstine got active again today, so most probably we will try to stay...[read more]

Broken carriage

Unwanted, but necessary, we arrived back to Coban Sunday night, three weeks after we left it. We were near Laguna Lachua, a big lagoon about 3-4 hours by car North from Coban, when suddenly the axle of my carriage broke. We could not do a single step without it. We were lucky to get 2 minutes later a ride straight to Coban. Here we were able to fix the carriage, which now looks a bit more stable. We...[read more]

Crossing an unofficial border from Belize to Guatemala (August 27)

All foreigners leaving Belize country are obliged to pay $18 US exit fee, which we wanted to avoid. We found out about an unofficial border crossing in Jalacte village in the South of Belize. From Jalacte it is still half an hour walk through muddy landscape. This we thought to manage despite the fact that I (Katja) cannot carry the backpack on my shoulders but instead have to use a carriage for transporting...[read more]

Barranco and long trip to Guatemala (August 25-26)

Friday, 25 August The sun was shining and the mood was good. We continued our trip to Barranco village. We got rides from one village to another, and the last 15 km we decided to cover by bus, which was passing by. Barranco in Spanish means “valley”. First people here moved few hundred years ago. Now this village has one of the oldest Garifuna communities in the country. Several years ago...[read more]

Caracol ruins in the jungle and the way to Barranco (August 20-24)

Sunday, 20 August Hector, the guy who gave us a lift from Gallon Jug to the highway in Cayo district, was driving through the bumpy jungle road like crazy. When we got out in Santa Elena village we needed some time to recover after all the bumps and the rain we had to survive during the trip in the pickup of the car. Our next destination was Caracol ruins located 40 km deep in the jungles of Forest...[read more]

12% of Belize (August 16-19)

After visiting modern Mennonites in Blue Creek we decided for the road which goes South to Gallon Jug village. We got a ride by Eduardo from whom we learned that Gallon Jug is a private farm mainly producing cattle (Eduardo was responsible for cattle transportation to the slaughterhouse). The owner of the farm is Mr. Bowen, who also owns the only brewery in Belize – Belikin, as well as the only...[read more]