Lanquin & Semuc Champey - Week 6

23rd to 26th October

We took the shuttle from the Black Cat in Antigua on Monday up to Lanquin which is in a beautiful valley in central Guatemala. It was a beautiful drive although it did take 8 hours!! The hostel we stayed at [El Reitero] was gorgeous at the bottom of the valley next to the river. One afternoon we hired lorry inner tubes to float 45mins down the river - very relaxing and cool scenery.


On Wednesday, we took a trip to the Ka'ba caves in our bikinis (alright, James didn't wear his bikini). It was awesome (sorry, running out of superlatives on this blog and awesome really sums this bit up!). We each had a candle to hold and were swimming through the caves, climbing up and down ladders and crawling through waterfalls by candelight - crazy! Love the health and safety in Guatemala!


In the afternoon, we went to Semuc Champey so a limestone formation that has created a series of aquamarine pools that we swam in. The main flow of the river goes under the 'limestone bridge' in a tunnel, under the pools and comes back out at the bottom. The photos from the viewpoint say it all:

Books we read: Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell - bit slow in places but pretty good - James loved it.