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And try again

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  • Central America
  • Guatemala
Jun 14 2017
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A little over a week after our first miserable failure. We were back, climbing Volcán Acatenango… again.

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Take a break

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  • Central America
  • Guatemala
Jun 09 2017
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Your birthday excursion up a volcano didn’t go quite according to plan? You can’t really be too disappointed when one of the first things you see when you roll back in to town is a lady selling assorted pastries out of the back of her car.

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If at first you don’t succeed

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  • Central America
  • Guatemala
May 20 2017
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Shivering, huddling in the tent as the nylon fabric buffets aggressively in the wind. Nibbling on a slice of cold, plastic-tasting faux cheese. Waiting for the icy rain to subside. Not exactly how I envisaged passing my birthday.

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Grey skies over Antigua

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  • Central America
  • Guatemala
May 15 2017
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Antigua, much like Oaxaca became a place that kept drawing us back like a magnet. Partly because we were awaiting respectable weather for climbing the nearby volcanic peak of Acatenango. Mostly because there was a lot of really tasty food.

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Roasting marshmallows in a volcanic wasteland

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  • Central America
  • Guatemala
Apr 18 2017
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There’s nothing like a freshly roasted campfire marshmallow. But does it taste any better if it has been cooked in the heat radiating from the depths of the liquid interior of the earth itself? This seems like a question that needs to be investigated further.

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From the rubble

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  • Central America
  • Guatemala
Nov 16 2016

This post is about some things that people from our home town of Christchurch are sick of hearing about. Earthquakes. Rebuilding. And crumbling stone churches. It seems appropriate to be writing about the crumbling earthquake-ravaged churches of Antigua today. Just as our home country was yet again thrown into turmoil by one of Mother Nature’s tantrums.

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To the lake

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  • Central America
  • Guatemala
Oct 18 2016
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The distance on the map didn’t look to be that far. Really, kilometre-wise it wasn’t. But how long it takes to get there can depend on which roads you drive on.

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Storms, puppies and summits

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  • Mexico
  • North America
Aug 23 2016
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Before we left on this trip, we had a habit at home of walking up steep hills.

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Two rather interesting hills

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  • Mexico
  • North America
Jul 01 2015
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There comes a time in every traveller’s life when they feel the need to camp at the foot of an active volcano. Right? Well, we did anyway.

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