Monterrico - Black sand and birds, a good crack - Guatemala

After spending so much time in the jungle we decided to take ourselves down the coast to Guatemala's pacific coast tourist hotspot, Monterrico.

And WOW was it hot, must have been 38C every day. We went to check into a place from the book called Johnny's but it looked a bit run down. So I ventured next door to the Marlin Hotel and it looked ok'er ($10 a night for aircon, that's good) .... little did we know... the owner a Tommy Lee lookalike was the local purveyor of the finest crack and had indeed been up on a 10 day bender...

We kept ourselves to ourselves and they kept themselves holed up for a few more days, one night though we stumbled on his girlfriend nursing some abandoned baby parrots.. (random!)

Here are a selection of beautiful sunsets and black sand pics... it was a very pretty vista