Country Info
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Quetzal (GTQ)
- Currency
- 12,974,361
- Population
- GT
- Country Code
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Antigua
Travel Blogs from Antigua, Guatemala
I Visit Chichicastenango Market
... ; We swerved onto the verge and startled the cows already in occupation. Another lovely colonial hotel full of courtyards and greenery. Antigua was flattened by earthquake in 1773 and is all cobbled streets with loads of churches - some in ruins as now it ...
volcano town
What a jampacked couple of days so far! Came toantigua with the owners of the hostel in Guatemala City ..got the chicken bus, actually pretty comfortable, people come on trying to sell you all sorts of things! Had a local tour of the town..ate lunch in ...
I Love MY TEACHER!
... ;t believe it either when I got the bill. Lol. She told me the price for an overnight stay at a hospital here in Guatemala was only 1000Q per night. Divide that by 8 to get the dollars. Crazy! Anyway, that’s enough of ...
Antigua
... Antigua. The city is nice but it's a tourist hell hole, and very expensive. It's like the Disney land version of Guatemala, where herds of gringo tourists and Guatemala's upper class walk the streets, cameras dangling around their necks. This is not the ...
Welcome to Antigua
... so bad that I'm not able to sleep;p The ride took a bit longer than I though, it took about 7 hours. Driving through Guatemala city didn't feel dangerous at all, I didn't see anything was looked bad, not even close. However what did really surprise me ...
Una chica canadiense en Guatemala
I am living in a dream. I´ve made it to Guatemala, and arrived in the beautiful colonial city of Antigua this past Saturday. I guess no amount of pictures, reading, and research can give you the feeling you get when you actually travel. Being in ...
An explosive kind of holiday
... streets, colorful buildings, women in colorful woven clothing. But it's poor and there's a lot of crime. Antigua is more Westernized than most other places in Guatemala, but it's not uncommon at all to see police with machine guns hanging out on street ...
Arriaga to Antigua
... not our finest section of the trip. Spirits rose once we pulled into the volcano rich section of Guatemala and were pleasantly surprised to find Antigua to be the best stop to date....We really enjoyed that place, and we will all head back...an ...
Sloooow
... a shower and some lunch... Chatted with the owners of the hotel and walked to the shuttle. It was a loooong drive back to Antigua, only 2 hours, but it felt much longer. AND the scenery on the way was soooooooooooooo beautiful!! UNbelivable!!! I must have ...