Category: Guatemala
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Day 35 – Welcome to El Salvador (Playa El Zunzal, El Salvador)
We left Antigua before noon and headed south-east to the border crossing with El Salvador at La Hachadura. The road was good, with exception of a small wash-out past Cuidad Vieja. We got briefly lost while trying to get around the town of Escuintla, but after asking some locals for directions, were back on track…
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Day 34 – Good-Bye Antigua (Antigua, Guatemala)
Today was our last day in Antigua and Guatemala, the country that we will remember for its beauty. Our plan is to leave for El Salvador tomorrow and then breeze through Central America in two to three weeks. In the morning, Gintaras spent a couple of hours walking around the town with a guide and…
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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…