Finca Ixobel

After Flores, we took a minibus (really a van) down to Finca Ixabel, which is in northern Guatemala (Peten). The bus assistant kept trying to talk to me in Spanish. I did my best, but neither of us really understood much of what the other was saying. We ended up talking about trees and animals. Very deep an intellectual.
 Luckily when we got here they had a room available. It's a fun little place. We're staying in a wooden cabin out in the middle of nowhere. There's a little lake here (but it's cold and overcast so we haven't ventured to take a dip). We went for a little horseback ride today which was a lot of fun. We went through the jungle and to the top of this hill where we had a beautiful view. Then we went down and around some houses. People definitely live differently here than back home. Everyone just has one or two room houses with tin roofs, laundry hanging up outside, and chickens, dogs, or pigs in the yard. Everyone is super friendly, always smiling and saying hi, with the kids running around barefoot.