We left Flores happy that we'd visited, but pleased that we were heading on to a new adventure. The journey to Guatemala City didn't disappoint. The driver was, in my mind, unhinged. He was driving as if he was in a tiny Peugeot 205 and even then that would have been conservative. With it being a night journey, leaving at 11pm and due to arrive in the city at 6am, we didn't see much of the countryside, instead we tried to sleep. At one point the bus, which must have been topping 65mph had to do an emergency stop, narrowly missing a cow in the middle of the highway (a bit like our single A roads). All of the passengers flew out of their seats from their sleep imagining the worst, most people just had a
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