Acatenango hike for vulcan de fuego

After breakfast I got picked up with ~30 other people to do the Acatenango hike to see the erupting Vulcano de fuego for 3 times!💪🏽

So we hiked 5h to our base camp with an elevation of 1.200, so it was hard💪🏽 still ok for me, found an wodden stick on the way:)

Then we had some instant noodles and we decided to do the extended hike, 300m close to the Vulcanic crater.
Our group, included 4 Germans and 2 Spanish people, decided to not do the tour without our guides (mistake? #no!experience)

We were still all the time close to our group, after going the wrong way at the beginning. After 1 1/2h ( 2 1/2 to the viewpoint) Paula and myself decided not to continue, because the very hard path was beginning and the people, who went down said, that they had a very bad view.
We were also very exhausted already. It was dark and started heavily raining.

So the challenge was to get back to our camp without any guide and in the dark. Half of the way back was „easy“, because we remembered the signs on the trees, but then we didn’t know at the half way back, if we are going right🤷🏽‍♂️

So we chilled at the ground and saw the crater 2 times erupting!! Nice, then we me our tour guides and we went back to our camp💪🏽 during that we saw the next big eruption!

After that: food and hot chocolate and go to bed 🛌

No morning hike but very beautiful view

2 1/2h down to the beginning point and 1h back with the hostel.

What an experience! I have never seen an erupting volcano and lava before😍🥹Read more