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Advantages: Crystal clear warm water Disadvantages: Going Home
I did my open water course in May 04. I was staying in the Fiesta Palladium grand resort and spa which had a dive shop in it's grounds. I decided to give it a try and signed up for the beginners course, just half a day from classroom to sea. The dive site its self was part of the mezo american reef which runs from cozumel down to honduras. the viz on my first dive was about 30m and the dive site itself (umberella reef) was absolutly spectacular. There were barrel sponges, sea fans, staghorn coral, all varieties and colours of soft coral, all at only 12m. We saw southern ray, baraccuda, trumpet fis, parrot fish, angel fish and many others. As it was my first dive it only lasted just over half an hour and I really loved every minute so I signed up for the full open water course. I did 4 more dives altogether, on Ruina Maya, Ruina ...
Advantages: Amazing place, excellent wildlife Disadvantages: Busses could be better
boat, carrying about 10 - 12 people. The jouney along the lake and up the river is fantastic, there are hundreds of birds, turtles in the water, amazing views.
Livingston was not such a nice place to stay, so we only stayed one night and headed of to Honduras for a couple of weeks (Honduras review coming soon!)
After a couple of weeks in Honduras we headed back into Guatemala via Copan. From copan we took a minibus to Anigua Guatemala. The minibusses are easy to organise, and cost about 20US$, they are a much easier way of travelling around southern Guatemala, the busses here are not so easy to figure out, due to the quantity and randomness of their timetables!
Antigua Guatemala is at quite a high altitude, so it's quite cool - which is a refreshing change from the humidity of the jungle. The town itself is great, small cobbled ...
