Doing the sights of Guatemala doesn't exactly compare to doing the sights of Managua. In fact, it made Managua look fairly touristy in comparison.
We've seen a number of "Parque Centrals", to get to Guatemala City's equivalent meant trampling through the homeless' camping park, to what at night is inevitably their exchange central. Not pleasant.
The financial and business centre is at least slightly promising, displaying architectural and cultural significance, with the buildings decorated in Quetzalas, the sacred Mayan bird, and that which the currency is called.
Having come to an end of our tourist tour we sett
led for a spot of shopping, and stumbled across an amazing vegetarian cafe, which was unbelievably cheap. (some of the places you find by mistake!)Our new room had a really bad array of TV channels, but we made do, with the realisation that there really was nothing to do in Guatemala for our last day, and we should definitely have stayed in Antigua an extra day.
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