A little taste of Guatemala (via El Salvador) and a final adios to Mexico City
July 24th 2008 Going to Guatemala for 3 days is clearly madness! We definitely got our planning wrong as we should have allowed more time here before going to South America. Unfortunately we stayed a bit too long in Mexico - on the Mayan Riviera stretch - waiting for Louise to join us in Belize and we could have done Belize in a week so had more time for Guatemala. But, if it wasn’t for the fact that we had p
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The Maya civilization flourished in Guatemala and surrounding regions during the first millennium A.D. After almost three centuries as a Spanish colony, Guatemala won its independence in 1821. During the second half of the 20th century, it experience... ... read more 
