Guatemala

January - February 2023

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- Jan 31, 2023
- Altitude: 1,536 m
- Guatemala Departamento de Sacatepéquez Antigua Parque Central Antigua Guatemala 14.560925, -90.73701814°33’39” N 90°44’13” W
Day 1
Arrival
January 31, 2023 in Guatemala
After 32hours from Gutenstein to Vienna to Munich to Chicago to Guatemala City to Antigua ... finally checked in and ready for bedding 😃
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- Feb 1, 2023
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 1,536 m
- Guatemala Departamento de Sacatepéquez Antigua Parque Central Antigua Guatemala 14.560925, -90.73701814°33’39” N 90°44’13” W
Day 2
Antigua Sight Seeing
February 1, 2023 in Guatemala ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Wandering through the streets of Antigua exploring all the hidden cafés, stores and markets... relaxed day with coffee and tacos and a nice round up at the gym 💚
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- Feb 2, 2023
- Altitude: 1,497 m
- Guatemala Departamento de Guatemala Ciudad Olímpica 14.621667, -90.51514°37’18” N 90°30’54” W
Day 3
Guatemala City Scooter ride
February 2, 2023 in Guatemala
Jarrimg ride hrough the cobble streets of Antigua ... little stop by the traffic police ... a bit of haggling about the penalty for not wearing helmets... no penalties... back to Antigua... getting helmets and off to Guatemala City ...

Stopping at Decathlon X what is NOT Decathlon and nothing about cheap and good quality but rather just expansive ...

In Guatemala City we finally found an area that seems worth and save enough to park and walk around. First district... shopping street...food market - very big food market ...and down the noisy road to the coffee district (4th district) ... having a nice black coffee and finally after 24hours fasting first food at the market - fantastic tacos with Guacamole and fajitas 🥑🌮🫘 + some fresh fruits and berries from the market...

At the right back another short chat with the traffic police for driving into a one way street and than up the mountain to Hobbington, where they built a lovely retreat in Hobbit style.

Last ride down the steep slopes and dinner at the food market in Antigua...Read more
Traveler Try nachos supreme. Always the best with guacamole 🥑🫠
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- Feb 3, 2023
- ☀️ 12 °C
- Altitude: 3,006 m
- Guatemala Departamento de Chimaltenango La Soledad 14.523333, -90.87666714°31’24” N 90°52’36” W
Day 4
Acatenango trial
February 3, 2023 in Guatemala ⋅ ☀️ 12 °C
Toury tour to the Vulcano "Acatenango" - what could possibly go wrong? 🤪
Tour start: 9am ... in theory... we leave around 10:30 with a dozen other tourists to stop somewhere to get equipped with "suitable" hiking clothes... continuing to the starting point of the hike where already 50 other tourists waiting to accompany us in a long and slow line up the Vulcano...
weather was cloudy with continuous rain ... we stopped every 30min to "recover" till we had a lunch pause at around 3260m after an 816m ascent but Dilay didn't feel very well and with the prospective of no view at all and a night at the rainy top in the clouds with the only attraction around being hundreds of other tourists we decided to go back and get a crep instead 🤪 ...
... and we got a couple of creps 😜 ...Read more
Traveler Sehr cool, dass ihr Findpenguin nun auch macht🤩🤩
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Traveler Jaaaa 😍🙌🙃
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Traveler Try again later. I really like the fuego 🌋
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- Feb 4, 2023, 3:35pm
- ☀️ 28 °C
- Altitude: 296 m
- Guatemala Departamento de Escuintla Municipio de Escuintla El Esfuerzo Río Cusmajate 14.290287, -90.79855314°17’25” N 90°47’55” W
Day 5
Antigua to El Paredón
February 4, 2023 in Guatemala ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
A bit of Goliaz in the morning ... coffee and tacos for lunch and off with the Shuttle to the beach "vamos a la playa" ⛱️🐚🦀🩴🏖️

Right to the beach for some Goliaz 💚😜 and Spanish tapas dinner and beers at the hotel bar 🍻Read more
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- Feb 5, 2023, 6:55pm
- ☀️ 31 °C
- Altitude: 6 m
- Guatemala Departamento de Escuintla El Paredón Buena Vista 13.915953, -91.06891213°54’57” N 91°4’8” W
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El Paredón01
February 5, 2023 in Guatemala ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
First thing first jogging in the morning along the shoreline... exploring the village... actually a very short trip 😜 ... not to much to see though... a coffee at a super small café and some local fruit shopping...

... a bit of more sport in the evening and dinner time ☺️ ...Read more
Traveler Der Sonnenuntergang ist besonders schön.
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- Feb 6, 2023, 2:23pm
- ☀️ 25 °C
- Altitude: 7 m
- Guatemala Departamento de Escuintla El Paredón Buena Vista 13.917041, -91.06952413°55’1” N 91°4’10” W
Day 7
El Paredón02
February 6, 2023 in Guatemala ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Today relaxed breakfast 😊 ... full schedule today ... chilling at the beach, cappuccino, some Sport and dinner 😁
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- Feb 7, 2023
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 1,565 m
- Guatemala Departamento de Sololá Xecal 14.693333, -91.27514°41’36” N 91°16’30” W
Day 8
El Paredón to San Pedro
February 7, 2023 in Guatemala ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
The sunny weather, waves and chilled vibes makes you lazy... schedule is breakfast, coffee and shuttle to San Pedro... little stroll into town ... actually not to much to see but the smell of Tuktuks and garbage and the noisy choreography of engines, dog barking and backpackers partying doesn't make a good composition for a silent night 🤪Read more
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- Feb 8, 2023
- ☀️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 1,584 m
- Guatemala Departamento de Sololá San Marcos La Laguna 14.724075, -91.26075214°43’27” N 91°15’39” W
Day 9
Lake Atitlán - San Pedro to San Marcos
February 8, 2023 in Guatemala ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
First thing I the morning ... scorpion in the bed ...

After checking the internet for toxicity and getting rid of the little fella a slow run was on the schedule ... there was probably some contaminated food, which the stomach doesn't like to much ...

.... we got a "scooter" from the hostel ... no mirrows, no helmets, no light but one of the breaks did work a bit 😅 ... we mad it to San Marcos, which is a little retreat village for Yohi- hugging-hippies - no disrespect here friends 🤪. The ride was short and after about 10km we walked through the narrow alleys getting spoiled with touristy/hippie/guatemalian souvenirs...what was actually kind of nice ...

... really exceptional was the food - fantastic veggie stuff with loads of avocado and unknown stuff in it but taste was fantastic - so were the coffee/chai/cappuccino mixes 😍 ...

... ad the scooter didn't want to restart we decided to go for a little concert connecting ourselves to water and mother BUT to be honest the music was good - even though we felt a bit in a kind of Woodstock for pseudo hippies ✌️ ....

... back by Tuktuk, got chased by a pack of hounds and forgot that we don't have enough cash to pay the driver...did a transaction to his banc account though the next morning....Read more
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- Feb 9, 2023
- ☀️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 1,605 m
- Guatemala Departamento de Sololá San Juan La Laguna 14.694346, -91.28695114°41’40” N 91°17’13” W
Day 10
Atitlan - San Pedro-San Juan-Panajachel
February 9, 2023 in Guatemala ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
... checking the connection to the next destination in the morning makes own thing clear ... there is non today... after paying our debts to the Tuktuk driver we decided to do a tour to a coffee collective... that was actually pretty nice ... we asked through the coffee plants, learned about the different types they are growing, the procedure of coffee making and the work of the collective....

... and since that was so nice we took our chance for a little stroll through San Juan, where we came across a honey bee collective which invited us for another tour 😊 ... after more knowledge and some honey tasting (and some honey for journey) we continued to the colourful markets down to the docks where we got some guatemalian souvenirs and the boat back to San Pedro...

... right in time for lunch in an Israeli restaurant... apparently there are quite a lot of Jews in San Pedro ... what adds even more nice food to the already wide possibilities ☺️ ...

... and at 4pm a boat to the other side of the lake to Panajachel, where we found ... More Markets and more souvenirs 😅 ... after we are now culturally camouflaged in ponchos we got some cocktails at the lake side and tacos, plátanos, a hot banana drink and a couple of cakes at the street... gratis stories in half Mayan/half Spanish included ...Read more
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