Flores (part 1) - Nov 10

Dragged myself out of bed early still feeling drunk, the two other guys were heading north so Keely, myself and a german guy (Fred) got the minivan at 6am. Keely hadn´t gone to bed and was quite wasted when the minivan rocked up.

Minibus was a bit of a shambles, at one point it left without us and we had to get a different one. We met back up with the group at the border. The border crossing involved catching a long narrow boat up the river .. this was super relaxing, quite a juxtaposition from the 2 hours of unsealed roads in the minivan once we landed ashore in Guatemala.

River crossing

Here are my first impressions:

- More rural than Mexico
- Not as run down as I was expecting (could it be my benchmark - Morocco, is setting a very high standard for poverty?)
- Definitely feels dodgier than Mexico (I saw a guy guarding a clothes store with a shotgun)

That night I got a private room (split with Ed a crazy English guy I met on the bus .. he writes for a ganga magazine), and managed to get into bed by 8pm.