Guatemala City

Nine hours later, about 7 AM, we made it to Guatemala City with no other problems (besides the lack of sleep). Originally we booked our bus ticket to Antigua which is an hour north of Guatemala City so as soon as we got off the bus in the city we had another driver meet us to get on another bus. As we drove through the city Ryan referred to it as an old Tijuana (TJ). The bus station was in downtown. All the surrounding building had bars in the windows and barbwire on the roofs. I must say to their credit that the bars on the windows were ornately designed, helping the façade just a bit. Once we got out of downtown we climbed a hill and descended into another TJ look-a-like. Despite the fact that the hills were covered with abundant green trees there were House stacked upon House on the side of the hills like TJ. We made it to Antigua in half the time (the first fast driver we have had).

Guatemala, Guatemala