guatemala

my entire travelling trip started 2 weeks ago in copan ruinas (where there is an archiological park of the old mayan ruins) ... went with 2 honduran friends from tegucigalpa on friday afternoon.... arrived in san pedro sula pretty late.... so what do we do!? .... well... .thought 2... and decided ... to try our luck with hich hicking..:)... it was so much fun... a truck driver (who only drove 20 km/h) .... gave us a ride.... so during 2 hours we were approaching the town of magic and hidden beauty..... by the time we arrived at around 11... there was no hotel open anymore.... but the amount of luck we had that day.. .we met a friend from tegucigalpa that moved to copan ruinas... and offered us to stay at his house..:)... went to see the ruins the next day... .enjoyed some good baleadas (typical honduras food).... and had a refreshing swim in the river nearby and returned to reality the next day...:) in my easter holidays I went to guatemala.... jeee.... so colourful.... religious and traditional ... it was incredible....after only 14 hours of busdrive (this is actually the time it took me to cross the ocean from europe to latin america).. we arrived in guatemala city-.... and went from there to antigua (little colonial town... .precious architecutre...) to see the procession ceremony from eastern ... .what does this mean?... well basically the entire town dressed up as something biblical.... carring heavy pieces of wood on which jesus/ maria.... ect... was reflected (always something biblical).... and this heavy monstrum was carried around the entire city during the nights..... as well there were "alfombras" (flower carpets) all over the town... which took days to built and minuites to destroy... kinda sad but sometimes beauty lies in the things that pass.. and not in the things that last..... from antigua we went to the lago atitlan.... first to santiago... a fisher town.... full of indigenous people... with their traditional clothes.... selling artesania all over the town.... increible...from there to san pedro de la laguna .... little hippie town... which a bunch of europeans and americans who try to take a break from reality ... relaxing and sharing the same anti capitalistic thoughts.... from there federica and I went to Lanquin and Semuc Champey... wow... wow... wow.... natural waterfalls in their full extent... it was breathtakingly beautiful.... took a quick bath.... swam in the waterfalls... it was a piece of paradise... the funny part for us was .... that at around 3 we had to go back to the next big town... to be able to catch a bus back to honduras the next day.... so from semuc champey we went to lanquin hich hicking.... from there we took a chickenbus with far too many people inside to coban... in coban .... we arrived pretty late.. and everyone said.. that there was no bus going to antigua or guatemala city... so we started to walk.... hoping for some car to give us a ride to guate.... when all of a sudden someone screams.... guate ... guate... so we got into the chickenbus... again far far too many people....and arrived late at night in guate where the next day we went back to reality called tegucigalpa...:)