Antigua - the end of the Caravan road
Our tour ended back in Antigua, which was kind of nice for us. We got a guided tour of some places we might not have checked out otherwise. We toured a coffee plantation/museum/store and an old convent called Capuchinas. (Actually, I think that’s the name of the order of nuns who lived there.)
It was a fabulous tour, and I heartily recommend it to anyone considering visiting Guatemala. Go to Caravan.com, and you can’t miss it. I don’t know if all their tour directors are as fabulous as Virginia, so if you call, you might want to ask if she’s going to be leading the trip!
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- we stayed at a nice hotel
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- like being in a little village
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- i highly recommend it... but it's a bit of a walk from the city center
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- the coffee plantation
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- you learn about the whole process, from seed to coffee cup
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- and then you get to sample the coffee and buy some beans
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- we'd never seen La Merced with cars in front of it!
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- but it's a sunday, and lots of people are in for worship
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- the city really comes alive on sundays!
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- this is the capuchinas convent
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- really cool place
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- ruins... but nice ones
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- just a little re-creation
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- then we went upstairs
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- no railings!
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- you can see el Cerro de la Cruz from here
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- these are the rooms for the novitiates
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- young women seeing if they can hack it as nuns
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- the view from their choir loft, in the back of the old sanctuary
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- stacey wants to sing!
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- virginia told us all about it
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- lots of interesting architectural details
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- uh... like that one
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- see the little girl escaping? she couldn't hack it
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- we visited "the refrigerator room"
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- nice and cool down there!
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- getting too artsy with these photos!
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- checking out the artwork
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- artsy jesus
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- artsy angel
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- all in all, a cool place to visit
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- our last ride on the bus!
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- and a farewell surprise for virginia!
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