DAY 49
Week 7
ANTIGUA GUATEMALA (Sacatepéquez, GTM) to ANTIGUA GUATEMALA (Sacatepéquez, GTM)
Thursday May 2nd, 2019
TODAYS MILEAGE – 95 miles / 153 kilometres
TRIP MILEAGE – 19,882 miles / 31,997 kilometres
Our return trip across Lake Atitlán to Panjanchel, via La Casa del Mundo seemed to be a lot quicker than the crossing to San Juan La Laguna yesterday. In under ½ an hour, we were back at Hotel Posada K'amol B'ey to collect the major pieces of our luggage that we stored yesterday.
By 10 AM we had located our 24 seat bus and all six of us were back on the road. We actually made pretty good time to be standing in our hotel - the Hotel Posada De Los Bucaros, back in Antigua Guatemala in under two hours.
As a group, we again went our separate ways with most of them wanting to check out a macadamia plantation, while our late-comer Coco chuffed off on the Pacaya Volcano afternoon/evening hike. I amused myself with a couple of laps of the town as my broom closet hotel room was as “hot as Hades”. The room is situated in direct sunlight on 3 sides, with nothing to cool it other than a slow-moving ceiling fan. You simply could not stay in the room, even with the windows open.
Speaking of hotels, the staff here have been wonderful, but they need to look the size of their clients when assigning the rooms where possible. Here’s a clue folks, I’m 6 foot 1 inches and a 110 kilograms in size and it’s not like I’m gonna run around in the shower to get wet or are any risk of slipping down the drain.
My first room’s shower was so narrow that I literally could not reach around to wash my freckle and had to step out of the shower to wash my legs. Tonight’s room is a lesson in unco-limboing when trying to navigate around the bed or use the bathroom facilities.
Tomorrow were off to the jungles of Rio Dulce, on the edge of the Caribbean Sea for a couple of days.
• SAN JUAN LA LAGUNA ~ Breakfast Of Champions (Sololá, GTM)