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we're in the little village of Lanquin about to go up to Semuc Champey and i'm probably
butchering that so sorry this is the little village that's just outside of Semuc we're
going to get a four wheel drive truck to take us in the rest of the way because can't take a little
car to make it the roads are too rough we got our truck we're on our way to our next resort it's
called Utopia Eco Hotel it's gonna be a little bit of adventure to get there see how we make it
it's very steep we will see in some areas but everybody when they don't have car they walk [...]
only pick up truck but probably like here you can see these tuk-tuk
transportation yeah but some people don't have choice they walk oh wow look at the river guys
one hour to the river with the concrete yes almost 100 pounds they're gonna walk
that's the only way to go to the other side of the river now how old is that gentleman 64 he's a badass
he climbs up this hill right here
Selvyn's water bottle...oh yes thank you everything's falling out back here everything is jumping here like you're back no actually it is
better than me sitting down in that truck oh yeah
yeah yeah i can use my legs as shocks yeah i was rocking i was rocking and rolling
i i heard you and i was like just cracking laughing going oh there's Wayne
wow this is amazing
now this is the school the school near Utopia huh
hola hola hola Malin
look it's a welcoming committee you guys are lovers
you guys are lovers yeah you're all lovers okay we're at Utopia you are
this is John he is the owner of Utopia how are you doing doing great yeah
she's the owner the real owner huh the big boss where are you each originally from well i was
born in Guatemala but i was raised in the U.S. in olio oh okay yeah born raised in Germany and just
got stuck okay yeah i thought i heard a German accent i took German in school many many years un poquito is Spanish i can't remember how to say it in German ein bisschen
take you guys down to your room yeah let's do that and then uh if you want we can run over
and i can show you the whole clinic thing and we can do that yeah let's do that yeah because right now i
think the sun's kind of nice i cannot even believe we're checking in at Utopia cannot
believe how beautiful the grounds are so far we're going to our accommodations for the night
puppies everywhere because puppies make vlogs better oh and they got a hammock
now that's by the river welcome now i'm truly down by the river are you in a van no
i sold the van to give here first off i am 35 years old i am divorced and i live in a van down
by the river here's your key um the sound of the river yeah will put me to sleep exactly if you're
like if we get a little rain tonight it's even uh the rain on a tin roof is always nice too
and you got a hammock yes yes i can see a beer in my future only one well i drink mostly whiskey
did you see the outside shower oh so nature shower
even better got our puppies so no air conditioning but that's okay because
plenty of wind will flow through here at night i love it this is my kind of resort oh yeah
we just woke up it's about 7am at the Utopia
Eco Hotel and decided that we're going to take a little hike this morning
listen to all the crazy bird sounds early in the morning the jungle just is so alive
very loud it's almost sensory overload it is our little hut didn't have any air conditioning was
which was still it was perfect like i wasn't hot i wasn't cold but you woke up too noisy noisy jungle
not used to that if you're coming to Guatemala and you're planning on going to Semuc Champey
i would highly suggest staying at Utopia Eco Hotel even if you're not vegetarian i tell you what last
night we had a amazing chili i thought it had beef in it but it was it was all vegetarian and
we also had beetroot cake it was super tasty and i'm not really a cake kind of guy but i ate it all
i think is less than two kilometers away from the eco hotel is the national park and i would
book a couple days to be here like we only have two days here i wish i had more time
we're on a little hiking trail along the river this is all part of the Utopia Eco Lodge so many
unusual flowers out here in the jungle look at the leaves on this everywhere you look
something that you've never seen before check out what we've got
pretty awesome suspension bridge only has a couple of boards missing let's see where it goes
if you want to find the suspension bridge from Utopia it's pretty simple all you need to do is
go down to the river walk along the riverbank to the right follow that for about 15 minutes you'll
come to a road walk down the road for a little bit keep looking out along the river and you'll see
-it's more like 25 minutes-the suspension bridge and Utopia here it's not really a farm per se but it's a it's a food forest we've
been creating so we've been when we bought the property this entire area over here was a corn
field there wasn't one tree on it we planted about 18 thousand trees since we bought the property
yeah all variations from mostly all edible nut uh avocado fruits hardwoods uh cacao gingers
vanilla cinnamon i mean you name it and you're all vegan here right a vegetarian uh okay yeah i mean
so basically the main reason for that was when we first opened the hotel we didn't have steady power
so we only were running on generators so that was you can't have meat it's difficult
really difficult and you know and to be honest and got for the first year to year and a
half we finally got full-time power but we were already known so well for being vegetarian we
were getting a lot of people coming just because we were vegetarian so it was a niche so we're like
you know what we're just going to stick to stick with it yeah and it really has worked out i mean
so it's just different you know what i mean so why not if it's not broke don't fix it you know what if i was
here i'd probably be vegetarian again i used to be vegetarian years ago okay and then i slipped
off the wagon and started eating that meat it happens it happens now i'm 150 pounds heavier
but it's because of the whiskey though not not because of the food-well think again-it's a mix it's a mix
learn all about mayan culture it's uh it's gorgeous you want it's
you're gonna i think it'll be one of the highlights of your trip (Tikal) so apart from Semuc Champey
i'm about to say i'm blown away now just the ride into here was amazing yeah it's pretty fun
the welcoming committee is here again doggies are 13 doggies yeah yep well they're not all ours
we're actually puppy-sitting for another hotel so five dogs are from another hotel and then and
then we have a volunteer with a dog and we have a guest with two dogs hey guys get out of the
front of the car so it's definitely pet-friendly it's definitely you guys get out there anyway
you can't you can't get in the driveway because of all the dogs look at this but they all love us daddy's home yeah yeah daddy's home hello!
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