Having missed out on the spectacle that is 'la dias de muertas', we are grateful that fiestas are so popular in Guatemala. We undertook our first camioneta (chicken-bus) adventure to a small pueblo to watch a procession full of angels and devils. The bus trip there was a challenge to those of us with issues about personal space. The aisle between the seats is so narrow you have to side-step down the bus. And the seats, while designed to hold two people, on this trip each held at least a family of five. We were tightly packed in the aisle for the whole trip, which was mercifully only a short distance from Antigua. While everyone was waiting for the procession to start, the streets were filled with ice cream, soft drink and bon bon vendors. The
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