Palacio de Dona Leonor Antigua Guatemala

... buses, though, is that they are from way before the carbon filter period. They exhaust the darkest and most poluting smoke when speeding up!!!

Admittedly, there are many tourists here in Antigua - and for a reason, I suppose. But I do not mind it. There are cafés and bars almost everywhere. The only downside is that there not really are outdoor serving areas facing the streets, which would have been a great place to sit and observe people. But then there is ...

... century in addition to a cultural centre also located in an old colonial building and with an interesting photography exhibition on display. As with the other days, the afternoon was spent lingering around the hostel and relaxing in the hammock – when I was not taking full advantage of the WIFI. I decided to go to Sky Bar to enjoy the sunset, but since the clouds were rolling in, there was not much to see. I spoke to a local Guatemalan working in the lucrative coffee business ...

... one place to the other that’s on the Lonely ******/ Rough ***** recommended route. Again this is partly frustration with myself and not a fault of where I am. But travelling here is far easier than I expected, everywhere there are hostels, tours and buses to ship gringos around the country to destinations detailed in the Lonely ****** and Rough *****. Also there is not the poverty of Africa, everything is just too easy and I’m not really complaining ...

... in de trotter goed omsschreven tentje gesloten of verdwenen...ofwel was de kwaliteit onder de maat.
Anyway....we hebben regelmatig leuke avonden gehad met locals in ViaVia en hebben daar uiteindelijk ook een trip van een dag en een nacht naar een Vinca geboekt welke een uur rijden van de stad lag....midden in de bergen.
We vertrokken op zondag ochtend om 8 uur vanaf Via Via met een busje gevuld met drie Belgen (moeder en twee dochters), een amerikaans stel met kind, een ...

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Antigua Guatemala, Western Highlands, Guatemala cc_world_tour

We got a cab to the bus station in Santa Rosa to go to La Palma in El Salvador. The cab was at least 30 years old, completely battered and full of bags of litter off the street and flies when we got in. Luckily the bus station wasn´t far. The bus took us to the border where we were the only ones getting off. A lady came on and briefly looked at our passports then we grabbed our bags and wandered over the unguarded ...

... I´m still waking up at 5am even without the wretched church bells, there are still roosters. El Salvador is surprisingly lush, with loads of different shades of trees. I don´t really know what I was expecting, some sort of blasted heath I guess. I´d hoped I´d left the chicken buses behind in Nicaragua, but the one I was on yesterday to La Palma had the least legroom of any vehicle in existence.

So after a chicken bus, med bus tuk tuk taxi luxiory bus and then anothet chicken bus i have arrived! Thing is in central america there are no directs lots of times thus u end up going in a big circle rather then direct. Anyways just to say how nice people in el salvador are At one of my transfer points 2 guys around 20 lead me to the bus station, missed there bus to make sure i safely got on the correct bus, Imagine that! So nice folks!

Just a stop over at 8km from El Poy border crossing, which closes at 6pm, otherwise we would have carried on. Tomorrow we are heading to San Salvador. The town has no paved road and it is rainy here so the streets are all muddy it doesn´t make it easy to walk around.