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We had Semuc Champey already before on the note, as it looked after a suitable intermediate stop between Flores and Antigua and we did not want to sit again 10 hours in a minivan. Well, sentence with X, was probably nothing. After a little more detailed research, we found a rather striking quotation: “If you want to visit Semuc Champey, you must plan at least 3 days. One for the journey, one for the national park and one for the departure. “That’s exactly how it was then. From Flores to Lanquin, the only sensible place to visit from Semuc Champey, it is an 8-hour drive. From there to Antigua – the next destination – it is again 8 hours. There is also a 1 hour drive from Lanquin to the national park. Therefore, the question arose to us, is it the value?
Well, what can we say, our opinion is a clear YES!
Alone the ride is an experience and we do not mean the boring five hours from Flores to Coban, the fun part comes afterwards. Then the “street” ceases and it goes down on a gravel road through middle of corn and coffee fields into the jungle. Arrived in Lanquin, first around 20 men spread their heads through the door in the minivan and wildly shout all the hotel names of the place. Here you are picked up from the hotel, however, however, you have to ask 20 times, in which hotel you want is still a mystery. Maybe some tourists spontaneously change their mind when another hotel has a more beautiful name?
Our hotel was a bit out of the way, right on the river and just super idyllic. We met a Catalan couple (Marta and Eduardo), who already sat with us on the bus at dinner (or the previous Mojito-Schlürfen).
The next morning we went with a so-called “bus” into the national park. But past the time with “cozy” minivans, we were simply to tenth on the loading area of a pick-up truck and went off even deeper into the jungle, with even deeper sleepers, just super funny!
The waterfalls themselves are best described with the pictures, simply super idyllic and beautiful. Worth mentioning are actually only the fish, which live in the pools of the waterfall. Ever heard of the fact that many people in Asia pay money to put their feet in a water basin with fish, which nibble the cornea and give a velvety soft feet? Exactly the fishes are also here and hardly one puts one’s feet into the water, the feast is prepared and one is “eaten” by a swarm fish 🙂
After a few hours of walking and swimming, we went on another drive through the jungle back to the hotel and the next morning again 8 hours to Antigua!