Volcan Pacaya, Guetamala & Buena Vista Social Club

WE were supposed to leave at 6am to hike to volcanoe but i think all these early mornings were getting to us and we slept in. at around 7am, the watch-man at the hostel came a franticly woke us up saying that we were late, but lucky enough the bus driver was an hour late so at the end of it all we weren´t late at all and got an extra hours sleep, we had the last laugh at all the suckers who got up at 6am.

It was a windy drive to the volcano, but amazing, as the sun was only coming up. From where we were dropped off it was around a two hour hike up the where we should see some lava flowing! Since the volcanoe was erupting a few days beforehand (we saw it on CNN) there should be some nice fresh lava....

WE eventually got to near enough the top of the volcanoe, although i wouldnt go any further up incase it erupted (there was people on top, they must have been absolutely crazy!!). Where we got to there was lava flowing past us, just feet away, it was stunning!! Really warm and lots of sulphor fumes coming off the lava. It was mad at how close we could get, there really is no rules in Guatemala. Here is a few pics...





That night, we had booked a table to see Buena Vista Social Club. It was one of the most enjoyable gigs i have ever been to, we had a table up the front, but when i mean up the front there was only six tables in the room, and the best thing of all that it was FREE!!! they played for over three hours, some stuff i knew other songs i didnt. It was nice, sitting back watching Buena Vista sipping on a mojhito... excellent!! I have a video of one of their songs, dont know hoe to attach it on so will get ryan to help me there so all i can put up is a pic-