Lanquin

Tuesday morning and an 8am shuttle to Lanquin. A tiny town in the jungle in the middle of Guatemala. Someone discovered its beauty years ago and now it is part of the must-see list for tourists. This is the sort of place you can come for a couple of days and stay for weeks or months.

Lanquin itself is a small village with not that much to do but there is a relatively new hostel here that is just beautiful and makes it very easy to lay around in a hammock and just hang out. Chris and Thomas, the owners, have an amazing music collection so when there’s electricity, you can just lay around, staring at the amazing view, listening to great music and eating seriously good food – a pleasant change.

One of the activities to do here is tubing in the river down the bottom of the hill. We rode in a tuk-tuk to a spot on the river, jumped in with our tubes and just floated down the river, stopping along the way for a beer. It was quite a way we ended up going, about 2-3kms in just over an hour. The scenery was idyllic, beautiful trees gently bending into the green river, with little spots where there were some rapids to provide a bit of excitement. Ah, this is living!