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Bienvenidos a Guatemala!

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April 29th 2009
Llegamos! Estamos en Xela. And we´re back to toilets that don´t flush toilet paper, electric showers, people constantly bugging you to buy something, dark alleys with a surplus of stray dogs, and hot, sweaty buses!! (And we´re somehow both enchanted by this?!) We really arrived with little to no trouble, in fact, it was almost too easy (knock on wood)! The first bit of anxiety came wi ... read more

Central America Caribbean » Guatemala » Western Highlands » Quetzaltenango

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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