A visit I made in Guatemala during my big trip to central America..

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Arrived in Guatemala during a trip to Central America also includes Mexico, Belize and Cuba made with a friend of the Sorrento Peninsula.
Arrived in this country in bus from the border with Mexico at La Mesilla. In the evening, overnight stay in Chichicastenango, was Saturday night and were under preparation for the famous market indios.Il morning after we shot one of the characteristic of multi-market banks indigenous. At the heart of the village is the Church where we celebrate the rites of religious syncretism fruit mixture to Catholicism: the local kneel in front of a small stone altar where candles light up and make sacrifices using polli.Sul the churchyard sorcerers tins wave plate by where smoke exits. The same things can be observed in the cemetery whose graves are as colorful clothes this afternoon with a gente.Il fatiscente Guatemalan bus load all'inverosimile reach the crossroads of Los Encuentros, and from there with another means to Solola, then the modern Panajacell and tourism on Lake Atitlan. When we reach the volcanoes surrounding the lake are overshadowed by the clouds, take a spear and make rapid course to Santiago.La town is not too comfortable but it is certainly more true of Panajacell, people have their own customs and idol worship of a strange name Maximon.Il From the following morning we depart, around the San Pedro volcano reach the homonymous village, most of the previous tour, but also more interesting. Lakeside walking you can see women washing clothes and children who do bagno.Lasciamo launches in San Pedro and return to Panajacell, from here to Les Encuentros, quiondi in Antigua, the ancient and historic capital city is Guatemala.La beautiful and noble, but everywhere there are the remains of tremendous earthquakes suffered quite normal because the place is surrounded by majestic vulcani.Tra Churches and Churches intact gutted by the force of nature, walk the ancient cobbled streets of which are opened with splendid noble palaces flowered patio remains of a glorious colonial past when Antigua was the capital of all Central America. We leave Antigua with a collective taxi reserved for tourists who will take us up in Guatemala City, the current Capital insignificant, then go with the luxury bus to Puerto Barrios to sleep. The next day shipment on a spear sailing the Caribbean Sea surrounded by beautiful palm trees leads us to Livingston, a town connected only by sea to the rest of the country, where live the Garifuna, descendants of African slaves brought here by Spanish conquistadors. Still runs through the waters of the Rio Dulce through a beautiful landscape of mangroves and thatch huts. The boat drops us in the village of Rio Dulce where we take the first bus to Flores, a town situated on a small island in a lake connected to the mainland by a ponte.Flores is very touristy as evidenced by the numerous restaurants that overlook the lake.
The day after a trip early in the morning we reach the Mayan ruins of Tikal, high pyramids placed in a lush tropical forest to where the monkeys are welcome urlatrici that skip from one tree to another. After visiting return to Flores where dormiamo.Il next morning once levataccia, this time to leave Guatemala and into Belize (See on Tour).