Hotel Real Plaza Antigua Guatemala

... and plants all around. What a beautiful hotel. Hotel Quinta de las Flores Calle del Hermano Pedro No. 6, La Antigua Guatemala. Guatemala, Central America. When we arrived late on Saturday night it was dark, very dark and didn't know exactly where ...

From Copan Ruinas you can take a shuttle directly to Antigua, Guatemala and avoid dealing with Guatemala City altogether.  Sounded like a great idea to me and well worth the $15. There is one that leaves at 6 am and another at noon.  Guess ...

... Guatemala. I also watched High Fidelity (Nick Hornby) that day which was very funny. So we had a real lazy Sunday, movie day. In our hotel in Antigua (Guatemala) there was a little girl, about five or six, who was always playing around in the ...

... of the day went much like the same. We went to a shop that had items made by locals in all the regions of Guatemala, including southern Mexico. One Mexican artist had some very interesting stuff. Some of the art is not explainable.   We decided to ...

... NEXT TO Iglesia La Merced. The church is best known for being the starting point for Holy Week processions (a huge deal in Guatemala). It is built in a baroque style and adorned with stucco plasters. It was built by the famous architect Juan de Dios in ...

... and Guatemala has the great honor of being the first nation for the start of my Central and Latin American travels. Antigua, Guatemala is a city with a population of around 60,000, quite small compared to other touristy cities in the region ...

... .  We used the Let's Go Central America travel guide, and it told us that we could find buses to Antigua near the Plaza Mayor in Guatemala City (commonly called Guate on signs and buses).  This is not true.  The only way we know how to ...

... I was not) you can visit the four little museums they have. It was my favourite place in lovely Antigua.   Despite everything I have heard about the capital of Guatemala, I still had to stop in Guatemala City to check it out. I am still alive and ...

... noisy too. It's good to change over to your next destination and that is about all. "Antigua" is a very traditonal city, built by the Spanish, unlike Guatemala City, (now the capital). It has a lovely feeling about it and is very typically ...

July 4-5, 2011: El Remate, El Peten province, Guatemala (At the time of writing, 1USD = ~8GTQ - Guatemalan Quetzals)   Bienvenidos a Guatemala On the day of America's independence, I feel my travels really began as I crossed over from Belize to ...

... the backdrop of this beautiful, volcano lined lake.  We feel so fortunate to have chosen not only Guatemala, but this region and especially this hotel as a destination.  As I sit here composing this entry I am watching the sunset directly in ...

... knee; something to do with shinning up a coconut tree in San Pedro. It will take us approx a week to get to Guatemala City so we will meet with them in Antigua or Lake Atitlan in 10 days or so. And then there were 2 ........................ Laters ...

... the plunge and turned their backs on the rat race. Following a short flight we arrived in Guatemala heading straight for her original capital Antigua. Located at 5000 ft and surrounded by several perfectly formed and apparently active Volcanoes. The town ...

... go and thats down.  Well, our feelings have been up and down actually.  Our first inclination was to think that Oaxaca and Antigua (Guatemala) were much nicer Colonial towns (not that we should compare, but hey) but last night, around 7.30pm, we ...

... two years ago I realized I needed them to be, so they learned or I got new staff." Granada itself reminded me of Antigua, Guatemala in that it is a well-preserved colonial town, with brighly painted buildings, a pretty Central plaza and park, ...

... cobbled streets and some character , but somewhat potholed & dusty and not the clean charm of somewhere like Antigua Guatemala. Itīs most interesting features were the Parque Central , a couple of colonial churches (the third one is a very ...

... weekends they are known for art fairs and such. We've been here for the past couple days. This city reminds us of Antigua, Guatemala in terms of it's size, the colonial buildings and cobblestone streets, central park, and colorful buildings. However, it ...

... didn't intend to spend any time in the capital and headed for a friendly looking chap who could take us to Guatemala's historic captial, Antigua (pronounced an-tig-you-a).  Thirty minutes later we were still sitting a stone's throw from the airport ...

... itself Sharing 1 skinny train bed (India). We jumped on the train without tickets. Roasting marshmallows on lava flow (Guatemala) Catching piranha and then swimming with pink dolphins in croc and piranha infested waters (Bolivia) Getting inked at the ...

... that they did not have an explanation for. How the earth was so powerful. Granada the town was very much like Antigua (in Guatemala - still my favourite town of the whole trip so far). A strong colonial Spanish influence but on a less grander scale. ...