Lava, Tents & Tarantulas.

Last weekend I embarked on a camping trip like never before. On a live Volcano. Pacaya isn't the largest Volcano in Guatemala, but it's definitely pretty active and history indicates that it's about 4 years overdue for a major eruption, so it was spitting and blasting all night long. We hiked up with all our kit on Friday afternoon, set up camp before sunset on a stunning ridge just below the main crater, then we carried on up the mountain over hardened lava for another hour or so. This is where we came to a couple of amazing lava rivers, pumping out 2000 degree molten lava at quite a speed. A really amazing sight at dusk through to darkness, where the sky had an amazing eerie orange glow when the clouds came in. To spare you the long version, highlights included, roasting marshmallows on the lava, hiking the amazing landscape, the Tarantula that crawled out from under our groundsheet and joined us for breakfast and sunrise at 5.30am. More pics here .