Subject: Post: Today we visited a nearby Tropical rainforest conservation area. There was a "nature park" made mainly for American cruise ship tourists, but at the moment there are no cruise ships in the area so the park was closed. By our local friends we managed to get in there and had a nice walk in a peaceful rainforest, swimming in a dry waterfall for a while.<p>Too bad we didn't see almost any wildlife in the forest, at least not anything larger than insects. There was a lot of birds, but they stayed in the treetops out of sight. I spotted a snake on a tree, but it was also pretty far away. On the way back we stopped by one of Saija's student families, having local lunch with them.<p>After getting back home I slept for an hour or two while Laura, Timo, Saija and some locals went to swim in a nearby swimming pool. Not much more to mention about this day, we just had a dinner in a beach restaurant, a couple of drinks in a bar and came back home to sleep.<p>Running water is still a problem in the city, apparently the reason is a broken pipeline or something.. Now in the evening we are getting running cold water again, but not during the day. The second missing thing is Internet access, that's why the blog entries are coming late. No GPRS or 3G, and no working WIFI networks..<p>Tomorrow morning we will take a bus to Antigua, a mountain city on the other side of Guatemala. I'm pretty happy we found out that Litegua, the local bus company operates bus from here to Guatemala City and the same company then continues to Antigua. That way we can just switch bus in the terminal without actually having to get out of the terminal and navigate to another one in the highly unsafe Guatemala City. Only a direct bus to Antigua would have been better, but that doesn't exist.<p>Anyway, Antigua should be a nice and safe city, it's just the port and border cities and the capital that are a bit uncomfortable.. And that's nice for a chance. :) Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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