What do Christmas lights, active volcanoes and Taiwan have in common?
February 19th 2009 After a brief overnight in the distinctly insalubrious Ocetepeque (a Honduran border town 15 minutes from El Salvador and 30 minutes from Guatemala) and a quick change of bus in Guatemala City and we arrived in Antigua. Our now much thumbed Lonely Planet describes Antigua as Guatemala if the Scandinavians took over. As this was our first stop we didn’t really have any references to properly asse
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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 
