Las Farolas Hotel Antigua Guatemala

... 2 or 3 days there after heading to the Western Highlands, and I wanted to catch the famous Sunday market in Chichi.

Then I heard another solution (in retrospect, the best one), I could get a taxi to "los encuentros" (the crossroads) for $10, then from there, a bus to Chichi. But if he was wrong about the first bus, why would this one be any different? I started to think...

And in my ...

... and is still surrounded by coffee fields and Fincas which you can tour and has some of the best coffee in Guatemala, which traditionally used to be exported to the US and Europe leaving the poorest quality of coffee for the Guatemalans to drink. They normally drink it reasonably weak, black and sweet. The eating experience in Coban was good and we sniffed out a couple of good restaurants and fed on some of the best guacamole we had so far tasted. Sitting to ...

... es muy muy bonito. En Antigua nosotros fuimos en una caminata. Fuimos al Volcán de Pacaya, lo es mucho grande y tiene lava. Después el caminata regresamos Antigua, nosotros compremos en el mercado artisianes. Lo Tiene muchos ropas, muchos mantas, y todos casas. Fuimos a cenar a Mono Loco un restaurante con grande nachos, más grande que tu cabeza. Fue muy delicioso, pero no pudo comer todos. Finalmente nosotros fuimos a nos hotel y dormirnos muy bien.

... on Sunday.





All throughout Saturday night, local families worked tirelessly on beautiful alfombras (carpets) for the Sunday morning parade.












The alfombras were made of flowers, fruit, vegetables, hand-dyed woodchips and even eggs, shaped into patterns on the cobbled streets for the entire path of the parade ...

... Tunco we took a day trip to La Libertad which is the main city in the area and an important port. There was a ton of different types of fresh fish and other types of seafood. Thetown itself is a bit rough around thhe edges, so we didnt stay long and headed back to the peace and quiet of Playa Tunco. Playa Tunco is a great little surf village and I got the chance to go on a motorcycle tour with Moto Tours El ...

... that were used for cultivation of corn, maguey and other crops. On the shaman's house you can still see remnants of carved decoration on the front. On the grounds of Joya de Ceren, Mario pointed out various trees including this young "Ceiba" tree. In English it is called kapok and was considered a sacred tree by the Mayans. As a young tree it, the bark is covered by these thorns but ...

... las tortugas que habían criado al mar. As you all already know, I love slang...so here´s my little slang dictionary for El Salvador. Como ya saben todos, me encanta la jerga...pues aquí está mi diccionarito de la jerga de El Salvador: English     El Salvador    España cool ...

We have arrived back to El Salvador once again, and this time is the last time (for this journey at least). I just spent the past 5 weeks in Nicaragua, and Rustin spent 3 weeks finishing up his dive master in Little Corn Island and then joined me for the past 2 weeks in Leon. Rustin is officially a PADI Dive Master after 7 weeks of hard work and lots of diving. If anyone ever wants to go on a dive, he could be your guide! I worked on 2 more weeks of spanish ...

Today the bus set off at 5am, on time! We had to be there an hour before departure, so by the time we got on the bus we were ready to sleep again. The journey was really good again we did spend most of the day falling in and out of sleep - not much else to do on a 12 hour bus ride! I have started reading another book, I think this is my 6th in the last month and a half ...

... cultures as though they’ve somehow got it all figured out better than us moderns in their eternal homespun wisdom, but that’s pretty much just wishful thinking. Like Thailand, superstition rules in the countryside and small towns, disease usually in its wake. Where people tend to attribute magical causes to misfortune, science tends to take a beating. It gets worse. Foreigners have ...