Coban

Travel can make you change your thinking and do not think you have to go far to do so.

Traveling is an amazing experience that the persons can do, because we can meet beautiful places and cultures that we don´t know. I think that the best age of travelling is wen we are young because we can learn from different persons and different places. And we are costumed to live with our cultures, crew, but is good to travel out. All we know that the outside is different and we can learn a lot of things of these different places, but we don´t need to go so far away to meet beautiful places and different kinds of persons. That’s my case when I travel to Coban in vacation.

I live in Guatemala and I travel to Coban, it´s a little trip but had effects on me. Initially I really did not want to go because I had some birthday’s parties of my friends. I was upset because my parents forced me to go and I was thinking that it will be a boring travel. But when I was in Coban I saw the landscapes that Coban have and I change my mind. I had visited as a child Coban but did not remember anything, I noted that Guatemala has beautiful places to visit and I don’t really know it.

One of the things that travel to Coban cause a good effect on me, was that a meet a different persons, and what I mean is that the persons was different cultures and way to have fun. I meet a family that has a big collection of “bonsai”; they use these bonsais like a hobby and always to have a family time to share. This family always cares the environmental issues and they separate their trash in three different kind’s organic waste, plastics and glass. They take advantages of organic waste using it as fertilizer, so they don´t wasted your money on fertilizer. The other thing that the travel to Coban causes a good effect on me was the beautiful places that Coban have and know all the people know it. We visit the most commonly tourist places on Coban; Semuc Champey and Las Grutas de Lanquin. Semuc Champey is an incredibly beautiful natural limestone bridge resting on top of a river, with little waterfalls and pools of crystal clear water that are excellent for swimming. And Las Grutas de Lanquin is a large cave with excellent formations and a river that flows under it. I thought the beautiful landscapes are only in other countries and that Guatemala had beautiful scenery, but by visiting these two places change my mind and learned that Guatemala also has good things.

Traveling can teach you so many things and you can meet others kinds of persons, cultures and beautiful scenery, and we can learn about it. It´s your choice know more about the world around you, not shut yourself in a social group with a closed mind. You can visit beautiful places without going out of your country you can learn many things of your country if you travel it.