Wednesday 21 February 2007

Antigua to San Marcos

Just to set the reord straight, I forgot to mention the pretty real fire that was burning in our room as we returned from dinner. It was very pretty and was actually neededto keep us warm, it's nice to be not baking hot all the time.

After getting cash in Antigua, we caught our pre-booked minibus from Antigua to Panajachel, there were only four passengers (which must seem an incredible waste of space to a Guatemalan (mini)bus driver, who seem to take it as some kind of personal pride in driving around with horrendously full vehicles. Panajachel was busy, but it was Saturday afternoon.

We were dropped off at the Tourist info in Panajachel, which booked a room for us at the Posada Bosque Encantado.

We marched the length of Panajachel to get to our boat (lancha) to San Marcos and then a march to the hotel with three local lads carrying our baggage. Bargaining with them for their services was an interesting experience, I got the feeling that they were better at it than we were:-)

We went out for food and had a beer at the Blind Lemon, where there was live music, then back to our room for a (not very good) sleep.

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