Wednesday, September 26th
We slept in a little bit this
morning to recover from all the mornings of getting up early. We went to
Rainbow Café and ate their chapino (Guatemalan) breakfast, which was beans,
eggs, tortillas, cream, and plantains. I LOVE Guatemalan breakfasts.
After breakfast, we started our
own little walking tour of the different churches and ruins around Antigua. We
first hiked to Cerro de la Cruz, which is at the north end of Antigua and has a
great viewpoint of the city. After taking some pictures, we hiked back down and
looked at a bunch of different churches. We took a break and got some ice cream
at Sarita. I got a cookie sundae and Jordan got a milk shake. We went back to
the hotel for a nap and then we resumed our walking tour.
Cerro de la Cruz
One of the many ruins we saw
We actually went
inside the Convento de Santa Clara and Iglesia de San Francisco (which is still a
functioning monastery) got a tour of both buildings. They both were very
pretty! It was nice to have the guide because Santa Clara is in ruins and if he
wasn’t there we wouldn’t know what we were looking at most of the time. He
definitely gave us the tourist price for the tour, but I’m still glad we got
the it.
Overlooking the courtyard of Convento de Santa Clara
For dinner, we walked over to Café Sky. I got a chicken quesadilla and Jordan got chicken fajitas. They
both were really good and the restaurant had a wonderful view of Volcano Agua.
When we got back to the hotel, we took a dip in the Jacuzzi before going to
bed.
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