Antigua, Guatemala
After a tiring journey by chicken bus and changing some 6 buses or so, I finally reached Antigua Guatemala. While I was travelling in the chicken buses, I met a couple of travels - the guy from Australia and the girl Brazil. We did the last part of the trip together and when we reached Antigua, we went to look for hostels together. Stayed at the Black Cat hostel and it was 'the' party hostel of Antigua. Very loud, packed with foreigners and hardly any local. I stayed there for only one night before moving to one of the numerous other hostels in Antigua.
Antigua is a very nice town. It was the colonial Spanish capital of Central America. It is a World Heritage site, and among the most visited places in Guatemala. Lots and lots of tourists, language schools, salsa schools, hotels, hostels, foreign food mixed with a good variety of traditional culture, people and way of life. It seems to be a very big destination for north Americans to come and learn Spanish or Salsa. The city is nice and small with lots of colonial architecture, ruins, historic buildings, cobblestone streets etc..
