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Semana Santa

A travel blog entry by walkabout

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Happy Easter! Wow, I�ve never seen such a huge religious celebration. Antigua is host to the second biggest Semana Santa (Holy Week) celebration in the world. The Easter Bunny doesn�t compare to the huge processions & hundreds of alfombras (carpets ...

Adrenalin Bus Shuttle

A travel blog entry by veromarcos

Back in La Antigua. We should have been here by 11 a.m. but our shuttle bus company "Adrenalin Tours" managed to delay the van arrival by 2.5 hours. Nearly our longest wait in 8 months. The good news was that our driver was the slowest ever, so the ...

Steaming volcano and a beauty contest

A travel blog entry by veromarcos

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... a bit of rythmn one can basically ski or slide down it which proved to be of great entertainment value. Little else to mention about Antigua where we spent the rest of the day as there is little to do except eat and drink. We did bump into our French ...

Where gringos see gringos and think its cool

A travel blog entry by veromarcos

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Our pinzer movement worked, and we finally made it to La Antigua Guatemala from Quetzaltenango. Our route top avoid the terrible road of Tikal to Antigua in Guatemala took us to Mexico and then back into Guatemala via the East. A plan with near military ...

Blubi arrives in Guatemala

A travel blog entry by veromarcos

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We attach a few photographs from our tour around La Antigua Guatemala. Nice buildings and relaxed placed, but still very overrated. The good thing was that contrary to what we expected, there was absolutely no loud music or shouting last night. Its a ...

Machete wielding grandmas...walking on lava... and

A travel blog entry by goodygrass

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... of a sudden she pulls out a foot long machete!!!! At this point I am thinking...�kirsten...people in guatemala may not like psychologists...maybe dont mention it again�. But she finally gets across to me that Psychology can ...

Chicken buses and Lago Atitlan

A travel blog entry by escapingseattle

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... Antigua but decided I'd check out San Pedro on Atitlan before I settled in to take some Spanish classes. I had gotten some tips on Guatemala from a few travelers I met in Mexico. They all praised San Pedro so I had to check it out. I hopped on another ...

The Night Before Christmas

A travel blog entry by paladin

Tis the night before Christmas and the pre-celebratory fireworks are increasing in crescendo...I wish I had the firecracker concession for this country. I'm up from the nap, second espresso at hand, Honduran Pall Malls smouldering in the ashtray to the ...

No hable espagnol!

A travel blog entry by loosekannan

... kind but I had little to no clue as to what they were saying. I took a 45 minute right from Guatemala City to La Antigua which turned out to be pretty interesting. Along the way, I saw the effects of globalization (Americanization) in ...

Preparation H(onduras)

A travel blog entry by paladin

T'was a long week and a half..up early Monday am for the 6:30 flight from Guatemala to Tegucigalpa, Honduras with a 3 hour layover in San Jose, Costa Rica. The airport in Tegucigalpa is exceedingly short(and was closed for 4 months per a TACA jet ...

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Semana Santa

Adrenalin Bus Shuttle

Steaming volcano and a beauty contest

Where gringos see gringos and think its cool

Blubi arrives in Guatemala

Machete wielding grandmas...walking on lava... and

Chicken buses and Lago Atitlan

The Night Before Christmas

No hable espagnol!

Preparation H(onduras)