Hotel Casa Rustica Antigua Guatemala

Yippeeee - another trip begins :o) Flying out of Heathrow today!!!

Arrived OK at 12.30am (although my brain was still in English time so it was really 6.30am!!), hostel seems nice, all private rooms, no dorms, so I went straight to bed in my single room with en-suite and TV!!

Friday 12th - Woke up at around 6am (brain now thinks its midday!?!), couldnt go back to sleep so lazed around until a decent hour and then went to see what happens in Antigua. Quite a nice city - feels m...

It's easy to pass the time in Antigua. It's a beautiful colonial city with cobblestone streets surrounded by dramatic scenery, lush mountains and the Pacaya volcano. There seem to be cafes everywhere you look and you can't go wrong with the coffee or postres (cakes and desserts) in this city. We spent the day blissfully strolling the streets mooching round the local markets and shops in between sampling the local café scene. The most common antiquity here is jade and hand woven textiles. I th...

Gil and Tracy meet up at my place and we take a taxi to Newark. To get on our direct flight to Guatamala City. When we arrive we take a shuttle immediatly to Antigua which is about an hour away and check into our hotel Casa Rustica. We spent some time wandering around the main square / street and scoping out places. We headed back to the hotel to regroup and book a trip to the Pacaya Volcano the next day. We went to dinner at an upscale guatamalan restaurant and I had the cheese fondue and a ...

We got off to a relatively late start to wander around the city. Ended up getting an amazing western breakfast at a nice breakfast and then killed an hour or two in some sort of convenant not sure what the place was. We then headed to pacaya which is about a 1.5 hour drive. We bought walking sticks for 50 cents and then headed up a great hike through the mountains to the volcano for 3km. We ended up at the volcano which looked like a black alien landscape. We climbed up further up the jagged ...

Buenas Tardes from Antigua, Guatemala! This is a test blog, as it is the first one I have done. In future blogs I hope to have pictures, just figuring that part out, too. We left Albuquerque, New Mexico 1/19/08 and hopped to Phoenix, then LA, arriving in Guatemala City, Guatemala at 0530 1/20/08. Our guide book advised that the safest way to Antigua is by shuttle, but discouraged going at night, or in the dark. We stepped out of the airport expecting to see shuttles, but what we saw instead w...