Day 8. Exploring Guatemala. Today we all started bright and early with the free breakfast buffet here at our hotel. After breakfast, Tony and Jordan went back to the rooms but me and Jared took a stroll through the immediate neighborhood surrounding the hotel. Among other things, we found a little hole in the wall shop where me and Jared found some souvenirs we liked. When we came back to the hotel we went to the top floor and snapped some pics of the city.
Soon after we began our day as planned. Hi Jones came and picked us up and we went to downtown Guatemala City. There we visited Central Park and witnessed some sort of political protest going on. We also walked into an impressive cathedral where there was a lot of people praying and there were statues and figures of Jesus. We then visited the underground market. Nothing shady here. This is literally a market that is underground in the basement area of a building. It is a popular tourist attraction. Some souvenirs were bought here as well. We then had some lunch and headed off to what turned in to the most interesting part of our day. We headed to Antigua.
Antigua means old. Antigua is actually where the old capital city of Guatemala was located. This too is a popular attraction. Antigua sits at the foot of the volcano seen in the picture above. This volcano is still active. Antigua was beautiful. Walking around there you are immersed into Guatemalan and ancient Mayan culture. The market there had many items that reminiscent of Guatemalan and Mayan culture. We also witnessed a wedding going on in a cathedral there in Antigua and watched it for a few minutes. I also some children dressed in Mayan attire which really grabbed my attention. I snapped some shots of it. We also saw some men playing the marimba, the national instrument as well as some of the local artists at work. At the end of our tour of Antigua we stopped into a coffee shop and Tony, Jared, and Jordan had some coffee. Me and Hi chose not to get anything.
At the conclusion of our outing, we went to a little restaurant called Las Cebollitas (The Little Onions) and met up with Byron where we all had dinner together. It's hard to believe that tomorrow will be our last full day here in this country I have grown to love. Ashley, I can now see why you love it here so much. It will be hard to leave.
Tomorrow Tony and Jared will be teaching the Bible classes at the Linda Vista congregation and me and Jordan will preach the morning and evening sermons respectively. Ill let everyone know how tomorrow goes. I cannot believe that over 100 people have read this series of blogs. I am glad I have kept your interest everyone. THANK YOU FOR READING!!! LOVE Y'ALL! GOD BLESS! NEW POST SUNDAY NIGHT!!! :-)
Aww Antigua is one of my favorite places!!! See i knew I was right when I said Guatemala is awesome!!
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