Always I wanted to travel, but…I finished college, I got a well-paid job (but I didn’t like it), I got married. I started to realize a stereotype of being good wife and employee. And I was thinking that will be always like that untill retirement. But one day I decided that I didn’t want to live like that. Life is to short. It’s quite common story. I quit my job, left my husband at home and went on a journey of dreams. It was first time when I was travel alone without my husband, so far and so long time without knowing the language. I chose probably one of the most dangerous countries: Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico.
I spent five months in Central America. I was afraid, because I didn’t know what will happen with me in the future. I didn’t want to back to full-time job. I wanted to travel and earn money from traveling. But I didn't know how to do this.
This journey was a real school of life.
Here’s a short story, in pictures.
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I started to study Spanish in school, in beautiful Antigua Guatemala but also I learned Spanish in every possible places: in cafes, on the street, at the market.
I climbed the volcanoes in Guatemala.
But also in Salvador (it's amazing volcanoe Santa Ana)
I watched the eruption of the volcano Santiaguito in Guatemala.
I admired the sunsets over one of the most beautiful lake in the world - Lago Atitlan.
I spent some nights in the jungle and looking for signs of pumas.
I rest on the Pacific coast of El Salvador.
I spent so-called "end of the world", announced by the Maya in the former capital of the Maya - Tikal in Guatemala.
I gave in a purification ceremony.
I participated in the most amazing Easter holidays in Quetzaltenango in Guatemala.
I am arranging flower carpets.
I met the inhabitants of the coast of the Caribbean Sea – Garifuna peoples in Honduras.
I was swimming in the warm Caribbean Sea.
I talked only with people who spoke Spanish (thats why I learn language so quickly).
I took hundreds of portraits.
Visited a school in Honduras and checked how education in this country is.
Photographed animals in Salvador.
My favourite made of transport was chicken bus.
I saw this colorful cemetery in Chichicastenango.
Sometimes I felt unsafe, but the police always helped me. Few times I hitchhiked with them.
Before my travel I started to write blog. My blog received a special honor in the prestigious competition for the best blog of the year
When I returned to Poland I organized a big travel festival for women only. I started to write for travel magazines in Poland, be a tour guide too.
Finally I wrote a book about my journey and I'm still on the road. Now I do what I love. Sometimes it is good to take a chance and change your life.
