Antigua is a beautiful colonial town about an hours drive from Guatemala City.
I went here especially for the Semana Santa, the holy week of Easter - because it is supposed to be something really really special... and it was.

But first to the city as such which is beautifully set at the foot of (inactive) volcano Agua:


Cobbled streets, coloured houses, the volcano... just beautiful:






Big old buildings around the main square (this one is the town hall, "Palacia de Ayuntamento":


And churches... lots of churches! This one is La Merced, built in 1548, like most of the buildings in Antigua badly damaged and sometimes destroyed by a huge earthquack in 1773 and then reconstructed:


And a typical local bus in Guatemala, here in the streets of Antigua:


And I also met some friends from Switzerland here in Antigua: Elena (Ex-Völkl) and Aris are here to learn Spanish... after they travelled through Thailand, Australia and Vietnam before (so much for a strange route!).
Here you see me with Aris... probably at the very moment he got Amoeba from food from a street stall. I was lucky so far even though I have mainly been eating at local street stalls.