morning we ride with our host to Antigua. He goes there on some sort of a Romanian, have together FORMED of the nearby volcano. Offers us a share in wtyprawie, but somehow let go near the ear to these proposals. We are only interested in a WE ANTIGUA! - Cult Guatemalan town, next to Mecca all podruzujacych Central America. First impression - a bit like San Cristobal Mexican - colonial houses with pastel plasters, climate, pretty streets. At one of these streets we once ... Andrew and Ana.
find a cheap hotel, just behind rozreklamowanym by Lonely Planet Los Amigos hostel. LP guides have the power ... only in this trip is really convinced about it. People just put their trust them implicitly, wala from one to another place therein described, in conversations with travelers can feel the chapters with quotes from the LP. We, moreover, also sometimes poddawalismy August this madness.
first encounters with explorers tell us about it by going to a volcano Pacaya - the only active in this part of Guatemala, the super attraction. The price of such trips is about 55 quetzali (8 bucks). But I really REALLY worth all the talk!
moment of reflection and ... Wait. Wait a minute ... Is our host does not want us there, just today I take? For free ... Furious at yourself and your lack of consciousness come to the conclusion that on any volcano we will not climb! I console myself with the thought that in Nicaragua will enter the crater.
We visit the city. Nice Zocalo. Churches. A lot of the ruins. However, we find the coolest climate in the evening. On one of the main streets of fantastic Christmas concert (dancing women in hats Nicholas) some Guatemalan group. Lots of people on the street. Podryguja, almost dancing. Music really great. Martin says that if it was a rich that I downloaded them to your wedding.
concert ends, we go to the Zocalo i. .. encounter to the next! Crowds of people in the square, and at the same cathedral, a huge orchestra plays carols Silent Night. We are in Guatemala and we are wearing short shorts, a thin fleece. So far wybuchalismy laughter at the sight of a Christmas tree ... Now for the first time we feel the atmosphere of Christmas. Comes to us from actually holidays are approaching ...
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