Great quality and affordable chocolate.



Streets of San Juan del Obispo.



Color.



Quick pork sausage sandwich lunch back in Antigua.



Iglesia de La Merced, a baroque church built in 1767.



Iglesia de La Merced.



Inglesia y Convento de las Capuchinas. Ruins of an 18th-century nunnery.



Inside the nunnery.



Walking around the top floors of the nunnery.



A colorful wall.



The volcano covered in clouds the entire day.



Stop.



The Church of San Francisco, destroyed numerous times by earthquakes. The church in its current form was reconstructed in 1961.



Nice gardens on the church grounds.



Gardens.



Catedral de San Jose.



An oddly shaped plant.



San Jose el Viejo, built in 1680.



The Captain General Palace, the seat of the government during the Kingdom of Guatemala days when Guatemala was an administrative division of the Spanish empire.



The Antigua Guatemala Cathedral, first built in 1541.



Antigua.



After a long day, the hotel recommended this place for some cheap tacos.



Not bad for a couple of dollars.





Day 4



Yes, I know the title says two days. It was two full days IN Antigua, more like 3.5 including travel time/shorter days, etc. Anyway, our flight back to Atlanta departed at 9AM. In order to make it there in time to relax in the lounge, we decided to leave at 5:30AM. That should've put our arrival time around 7:00AM (remember this short drive from earlier?) Well, something had occurred (we still don't know what, but possibly a public bus bombing) and traffic was an absolute nightmare. Instead of arriving at 7:00AM, we rolled up to the airport at 9:15AM. Luckily being standby, we were able to just go on the later flight to ATL but that meant sitting around for ~6 more hours. We could've gone into town for lunch or something, but being frustrated, we just hung out in the lounge instead.





I didn't take any more pictures at this point, but the flights were uneventful, Instead of arriving in Tampa at 3PM, I got in closer to midnight. Sometimes that just happens. Either way, this was a fantastic couple of days in Guatemala and visiting here really makes me want to visit the other surrounding countries in Latin America.

Next: Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia (with a splash of Bangkok)