After spending 5 days in Monterrico we decided to stay in Antigua to wait for the contact lenses of Eva to arrive in San Pedro. We allready knew San Pedro La Laguna because we spent there 7 weeks to study spanish. Antigua is an old colonial city where you can take nice pictures (if you like old buildings). The city used to be the centre of power of the spanish in Central America. A series of heavy earthquakes destroyed moest of the city, and the spanish decided to move their headquarters to Guatemala city. Today Antigua is listed as a UNESCO world heritage site. In the city live a lot of ladino´s, decendants of the spanish who mixed with indiginous people.

In one of the streets there was a nice catholic ceremony with statues of Jezus and Maria being carried through the streets. Semana Santa is celebrated with massive ceremonies in the streets of Antigua, and this year there are an estimated 300.000 tourists to see the ceremonies.

A few times we went out to a place with a live salsa band, this was really cool. A colombian couple was dancing like crazy. We had some nice ´schnitzels´ in ‘Wieners’, a nice restaurant close to the market. After 4 days the contact lenses arrived in San Pedro, and we went to collect them.

Paul de Boer