So I decided to fly from Panama City to Guatemala, with a grand plan to then learn some Spanish, see Tikal, and then make my way overland down to Colombia, Skipping the Darien of course!!!

Guatemala has had a nasty reputation over the years due to numerous large scale-ish conflicts. There was the civil war in the 60s and 70s, a few major earthquakes, a scorched earth policy by a certain General Montt in the 80’s, the murder of US citizens in the 90’s and finally peace accords in 1996y. Now that may sound a bit freakish, ... (more)