Antigua (part 2) - Nov 13

Hung out with the German girl again today .. well for the start of the day anyway, she really got on my nerves so I had to ditch her .. told her I was just going to hang out at the hostel and chill.

Anyway .. caught one of the famous chicken buses today (here in Guatemala is where old US school buses come to die .. they are painted all sorts of crazy colours and they belch diesel fumes), to a village out of town to see a church devoted to San Simon. He is apparently a "wicked" saint, who is fond of drinking and cigars. There is a bit of a cult around him amongst unsavoury characters (prostitutes for example).

Out the front of the church they were burning eggs, and within there was a long queue that snaked in front of the alter. Was kind of cool .. not much else to see in the village so I caught the same bus back to Antigua.

The infamous "chicken" buses

That night I went salsa dancing with a Guatemalan girl who works at the hostel (she was also kind enough to mend one of my tshirts that I had ripped on a barbed wire fence). My moves are pretty rusty, but it was fun.