Well, after a sort of rough day yesterday we've arrived in beautiful Antigua, and it looks like we're going to stay here for at least a couple of days. Bright and early yesterday morning (it feels like ages ago) we got up and took a shuttle (haven't worked up the courage to try a "chicken bus" yet, but we will) from our hostel in Guatemala City to Antigua, then onto Chichicastenango. We spent about 4 hours in the town, exploring their famous Sunday market. Lots of colourful textiles, jewellery, bags, fruit and fried chicken to be bought, but we restrained seeing as we still have to carry our bags for 2 more weeks and don't want to be loaded down. We did buy some mini bananas, though, which were awesome. At 2 we were picked
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