Guadalajara, 2nd day The day after was a beautiful day, and plan was to go see the historical sites in the Centro Historico, and the local market, and have some local food. Followed a walking tour I found on the web. So started at the Plaza de Armas. This is a large square with the…
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Guadalajara, Mexico day 1 Decided at short notice to take a quick trip down to Mexico. Always wanted to go see the Copper Canyon, so planned this for several days. Unfortunately, this was not working out, so changed plans to go to Queretaro, MX instead. On the day of departure, found out that all flights…
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Back to Guatemala City Woke up reasonably early in San Pedro on Lago de Atitlan, and found a nice little breakfast place which was literally under an exposed staircase. The lady who ran it knew no English, so in our very limited Spanish, we order the local breakfast of eggs and of course, the delicious…
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Lago de Atitlan, Guatemala Woke up and went up the main street (one lane road) from our Posada to a nice open air restaurant for some local breakfast. Then decided to spend 1-2 days around the Lake Atitlan. Found out that way locals get to the other towns and communities on the lake is by…
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Solola and Panajachel, Guatemala Panajachel is on Lake Atitlan (which is a volcanic crater lake), surrounded by multiple volcanos. We passed various towns and cities from Atitlan to Panajachel with interesting names (Jocotenango, Pastores, Chimaltenango, El Sitan, Xacaxa and Solola). Roads were all tramac’d and in decent shape. People generally drive properly in Guatemala so…
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