Antigua is very... easy going with laws ( Read more... )

I walked my Guatemalan pal home again today, and this time photographed the walk out of town. The road leading out of town pretty much just plunges right into the mountains.


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This weekend started the festival for Antigua's patron saint.

Truck with a band followed by creepy, creepy giants.


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The weather in Antigua never fails to impress me.


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Random pictures:

Fountain in the middle of the expensive tourist market (vs. the cheap good market)


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Saw the Buena Vista Social Club remainders (apparently they now call themselves Buena Vista Mi Corazon or something like that) again last night and they were quite good ( Read more... )

I found out that there actually is a minumum wage in Guatemala. It's 450 quetzals per month. That's about $60. Sweet ( Read more... )

Pharmacies here are sketchy. A friend of mine got an ear infection and, not wanting to return to the US in pain, went to a pharmacy to get some antibiotics. After a roughly translated IT HURTS ME IN THE MY EARS the pharmacist, who of course hopefully has training for what to provide in such cases, handed over some hefty antibiotics, sans ( Read more... )

Few random pictures. It's commonplace for little kids to come into bars and wander around trying to sell people stuff or get juice or something, but it still creeps me out.


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Last night we saw the surviving members of the Buena Vista Social Club play in a little restaurant. They were very good.


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