Holiday at the Pacific Ocean...or the Atlantic?

Holiday!! Yess!! We had a meeting with SOS Children Village on Thursday which was really interesting. It was a beautiful large area in a suburb close to Xela city centre with 12 houses and 102 children. The children are free to go out and are guaranteed 9 years at school. When they turn 15 they move out with other teenagers and a "bigbrother" and they learn a trade and are helped getting jobs and a house. The cutest thing was four year old Andrea who came into the house we were visiting and grabbed Sara and gave her the biggest hug ever. Adorable!

Other than that we've arrived at the Atlantic (or Carribean) ocean after a rather long busride. We went from Xela west in the country to Antigua (in the middle), to Escuintla (very close to the Pacific Ocean, totally in the wrong direction from where we should go). We stayed there one night, caught a bus to Guatemala City, a rather long and sticky busride to Rio Dulce and a fantastic boat trip up the river to Livingston. The scenery was amazing, a bit like Daintree Forest north in Australia, but with far more bananapalms and coconut huts. Livingston is inhabited by black Spanish people, decendants from African slaves who escaped from the slave ships 400 years ago. It's very laid back (more than Australia) and very hot, but I think we'll have a few good days here.

Have a great Sunday!