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The World According to Sam
http://worldaccordingtosam.com
Follow one man's travels - specifically this fall in Guatemala with various excursions around central America as he works with Habitat for humanity and immerses himself into the intricacies of Latin American Culture.
- Author: worldaccordingtosa
- Listed in: Travel Volunteering
- Tags: development empowerment guatemala antigua habitat for humanity quetzaltenango
Recent Posts
jah rasta
So as I am sitting on a beautiful private white sand beach outside of livingston guatemala, sipping out of a coconut and chillin with some rastas, a few questions donned on me. 1) How much does it cost to buy a spider monkey? 200 Quetzals (aprox $25)...
When Mountains Rumble
Things Learned this weekend:How much work it actually takes to produce one cup of coffeemosquitoes prefer white meat (gringos)former armed revolutionaries are pretty cool peopleSo this weekend a group of us headed to Santa Anita La Union, a coffee co...
Missions Accomplished
The last two weeks has been a whirlwind of activity. Last weekend much of our group made the 3 hour journey to the Pacific coast. This involved going through about 100 different types of ecological environments; starting from the crisp alpine mountai...
Livin the Lago de Atitlán Life
Paradise. There are few places in the world that possess the beauty of this lake. The Mayans believed it is the umbilical cord of the earth, and all life began through it; and they could not have been far off, as the volcanoes and surrounding mountai...
Things Aldous Huxley likes for $1200
Tomorrow morning I am headed to Lago de Atitlán (above) by chicken bus. According to Wikipedia (which we all knows is the sum of all truth and tells no lies) Aldous Huxley famously wrote of it: "Lake Como, it seems to me, touches on the limit of per...
Laguna Chicabal
Hiked an old Volcano today! This morning a group of us woke up before dawn and caught a bus to San Martín Sacatepéquez, a sleepy village about an hour outside of Quetzaltenango to begin the hike. The mountain itself was the site of one of the bigge...
