Part I: Quetzaltenango to San Miguel Acatan. In the north of western Guatemala's highlands lies a landscape thrust high; a plateau of former seabed now residing at the chilly elevation…
Mark WatsonSeptember 23, 2017
Studying Spanish and Exploring in the Guatemala Highlands. Home for three weeks during August was the Maya village turned tourist town of San Pedro La Laguna on the edge of…
Mark WatsonSeptember 2, 2017
Seven days climbing into the Guatemala Highlands. The romantic notion of pioneering explorers 'walking off the edge of the map' is something that has always appealed. Such exploits might elicit…
Mark WatsonAugust 11, 2017
A morning among the chaos and colour of the Chichicastenango Markets. At 2000 metres in the Quiché highlands the morning air has a chill to it. For the first time…
Mark WatsonAugust 11, 2017
Back to Guatemala. My last post reported that we'd arrived in the cruisy seaside Garifuna village of Hopkins – on Belize's Caribbean coast – only to discover a broken axle…
Mark WatsonAugust 6, 2017
Exploring Belize. A former Caribbean outpost of the British Empire and still a part of the Commonwealth, Belize is a tiny yet incredibly diverse nation. Only 290 kilometres long and…
Mark WatsonJuly 8, 2017
The Mayan Cultural Triangle. This post comes from San Ignacio, Belize, just inside the country from the Guatemala/Belize border. After spending near to a month in Petén, Guatemala's steamy and…
Mark WatsonJune 21, 2017
Flores, Tikal and Uaxactun. Life on the bikes has seen a change of pace since we returned from our El Mirador adventure. Partly it's the energy sapping humidity of Petén…
Mark WatsonJune 19, 2017
Mayan ruins deep in the Petén Basin. When early aviators, including Charles Lindbergh, made the first flight over the immense Mirador Basin of Petén, Guatemala in the 1930s they were…
Mark WatsonMay 31, 2017
