Guatemala - Antigua

After some lovely days in Ataco and El Salvador, we enter Guatemala! Here we are having some coffee at the border. The dollar-coins are useless outside of El Salvador, so we spend all of our last cents :-)

 

The border crossing again was very easy. From there we take a bus to Guatemala City and transfer on to Antigua. It’s Saturday and there’s lots of traffic and people everywhere. Antigua seems to be very popular among local and international tourists and we struggle to find a hostal with available rooms. Luckily we still find one – very basic, but hey, a room is a room and a bed is a bed!

Antigua really is a beautiful, colonial city and we’re not the first to find out. We’re amazed by the amount of tourists! It really shows in the international restaurants and hotels, and in the prices, too. Still, it’s lovely to stroll around and there’s a lot of city action going on.

 

Christmas is coming!

We start the next day with a yummie local breakfast and go explore the city – lots of nice spots and ruins.

Antigua is surrounded by several volcanoes and they’re really beautiful in the light just before sunset.