Month: November 2010
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Day 33 – Sepulturas and Lake Atitlan (Copan, Honduras and Antigua, Guatemala)
Gintaras took a quick tour of Las Sepulturas, an adjacent archeological site to the Acropolis, in the morning. These were the former living quarters and tombs of the rich, including scribes and shamans. Some of the buildings had beautifully preserved ornamentation. The site is large and much still remains to be discovered by archeologists. The…
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Day 32 – All You Need to Know about Maya and Coffee (Copan, Honduras and Antigua, Guatemala)
Vadim decided to rest after yesterday’s adventure and stay in the city, but Gintaras got up at 3:30 am (without an alarm clock!) to go to Copan, Honduras for a two day tour of the Mayan ruins. Even the hotel guard was sleeping at those early hours, only laud snoring from the bar area gave…
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Day 31 – Antigua and Pacaya Volcano (Antigua, Guatemala)
We wanted to take a guided tour of Antigua in the morning, however, no English speaking guides were available. We ended up browsing cobblestone streets around the main plaza, visiting “artesania”, furniture, jewelry shops, churches, and snapping pictures at random. We briefly stopped at an ice cream place and tried some vanilla ice cream and…
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Day 30 – New and Old Capital Cities (Antigua, Guatemala)
We woke up late, had a light breakfast of chuchitos (small tamales) and some exotic fruits at the hotel restaurant, and then headed to the BMW dealership in Guatemala City. The ride was quick, less than an hour, thanks to Vadim’s navigational abilities to follow the directions written on a scratch paper. At the dealership,…
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Day 29 – Welcome to Guatemala! (Antigua, Guatemala)
We got up at 6:00 am, loaded all our luggage on the bikes, said good bye to San Cristobal and headed southeast towards Ciudad Cuauthemoc on the Mexican-Guatemalan border. The weather was perfect, the road was good and we reached the border town in less than three hours. As we were having breakfast at the…