Accommodation While here I stayed at the nicely run Hotel Rey K´ich´e, 8a Calle 0-39, Tel: (502) 7755-0827. It was in the centre of town and had 22 spotless en-suite rooms with cable TV and free purified water. Their current rates were 100 + 170 Quetzales for 1 or 2 persons or they had a couple of smaller rooms with a single bed for 85 Quetzales.

Since we left Antigua, we have headed more into the western highlands to the areas around Quetzaltenango and Huehuetenango. We also forgot to mention the neatest thing about our last night in Antigua when Pacaya, one of the most active volcanos in the world, erupted all night long. The peak has sulfurous fumes, barren plains and hot lava and is ...