I left Managua with my friend Maria early last Monday morning, we crossed into Honduras and then into El Salvador, where we stayed the night because we couldn't cross the last border after 5pm. We stayed in a nice part of San Salvador (the capital of El Salvador) which blew us both away, as did the nice parts of Guatemala City (Guate) where we arrived on Tuesday midday. Both had large malls, name brand international stores, Mercedes Benz dealerships, sky scrapers, the works. Managua is all messed up in terms of urban planning and development due to the earthquake in the 70s and because of that continued threat throughout Nicaragua it is rare to find buildings above one or maybe two floors.
Guate:
Our plan was to meet up with Maria's friend, Nitivia, who lives and works in Guate and make a plan from there. Maria and Nitivia met in Peace Corps Georgia (yes, Maria is serving in two countries) so Nitivia prepared a Georgian supra, this consists of lots of food and wine. One person is basically chosen as toastmaster, in this case Nitivia, so she would toast something (peace, family, music, friends were a couple) and then we went around the circle and each person said a little something on each subject. It was really fun and we had a great group of people who got pretty insightful.
We spent the rest of the week at Lago Atitlan in San Marcos, which is seriously a hippie's paradise- lots of meditation centers, massage, holistic stuff, beautiful lake though! We spent a lot of time walking around, taking boats to other towns around the lake, eating really good food, and meeting crazy people.
Ok, I'll get to Part II: Tikal later.
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So glad you got out to San Marcos (and Tikal apparently!). Que hermoso el pais, no?
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