El FESTIVAL de FLORES de ANTIGUA | GUATEMALA #5

[Music] [Music] and after more or less an hour by boat from San Juan making the different stops that it makes along the way I have arrived once again back to pana to pana hachel and now in about half an hour or so I'm already taking the bus The satel that takes me to Antigua and the price to cross the lake in this case well from San Juan to Panas or round trip eh in each direction is about 25 quetzales eh which comes to 2 and Med more or less and and but so that you keep in mind that here when you are foreigners they are always going to charge you more, I don't want to think of it as a scam for foreigners or tourists but rather a way to leave it cheaper to local people so for Well, that part doesn't seem so bad to me and apart from that the difference isn't that big, maybe a local pays Euro and a half something like that And you as a tourist pay 2 and a half Well, it's not so much the problem, it's when they see you face like that and they raise your price even more. price [Music] [Music] [Music] H [Music] [Music] [Music] I have finally arrived It has been about 3 hours in the van the road has been leaving the driver was going to fire the whole part of the mountain The curves, I mean, there were moments when it was a bit tight, but well, on top of that, there were some areas that had, like, there had been landslides and it wasn't well paved, there was even a river passing by. Well, a little bit of everything, very complete, but the problem was that when you already We arrived at the city and on the approach there was horrible traffic and we were stuck there for about an hour to enter the city and well finally we have arrived the problem is that uh today Well this weekend we are in is the one celebrating the flower market here, which is a very important festival here in Antigua where they make a lot of floral decorations with a specific reason and now when I can see it I'll see what it's like and I'll try to inform you better but the problem is It is such a well-known festival that it is so popular that there is this traffic coming and going and then the driver couldn't even take me to the hotel so I am already here with the two backpacks at the entrance to the city and I am like half an hour from my hotel So I'm going to try to take advantage of the remaining hours of daylight to visit the entire center of the flower market a little because if not I don't think I'll have a chance tomorrow to see something [Music] more [Music] as [Music] first point of contact with Antigua is being the less intense it is a beautiful place a beautiful city I will tell you a little more about the history of the place and a little about the most emblematic places when I have a little more time when I can leave the backpack and I can go a little calmer because right now between the weight I have of carrying the two backpacks and above all the stress of the number and quantity of people, it is very difficult to be able to be like this with a A bit of tranquility but it is very cool as it is. This flower festival market that I have told you about is all decorated, especially the main avenues where the Merced church of the Arco Santa Catalina is, etc., the entire market, also of La Merced, where the They have set up a lot of food stalls so there is a lot of atmosphere, it's the weekend. So there is practically all of Guatemala here but the truth is that the atmosphere and everything is very cool. But there are too many people then to walk along the main avenues. It's getting complicated, so it's good to try to get out of the center a little. I've already seen enough about the subject of flowers and I'm going to try. Well, that's it. I do n't know if I'm going to eat something or what. I'm waiting in the afternoon. Now Carlos will have to come. He is the friend with whom I am going to do part of the trip So try to wait for him somewhere because he has already gone to the hotel where we stayed tonight, he has already been and he has the key So I have to wait for him Still like that Well, I don't know what I'm going to do since I was breaking my back carrying both backpacks and there was still a long way to go before Carlos arrived. I decided to stop to eat because on top of that I hadn't eaten anything since 8 in the morning when I had breakfast at the hotel. Atitlán So I stopped at the first place that I saw that was very good. It's very good, it's not typical food. It will arrive, but it was an Italian called the Italian Hunter from here from old times and it was super good. I ordered an Alfredo pasta with chicken I eat it on the grill and then a panna cotta and it's all very good, the truth is that the price is good, quite normal, more than the local one, but it's all very delicious and I needed it or, above all, to rest after a while from carrying the backpacks and such. So nothing because Carlos is also having the same problem as me at the entrance to the old city that there is a brutal traffic jam so well I had to make time so I'm just going to the hotel to see if it's arriving and little by little little so we are closing today, tomorrow and the day after that will be filled with intense days [Music] well finally. We have already arrived at the hotel where we are going to stay for the next few nights not because tomorrow we are not going to stay here but in the top of a volcano But it's going to be a bit of a control point here since ancient times. For the next ones, I think it would be a total of three nights, excluding that one in between, and we're staying in a little house. We would have liked to stay in a slightly better place. But I'll tell you what it was like on the festival weekend, everything is over the top and everything is super expensive, so well, this is, uh, a house is called a hotel. I don't know how many I forget, I forget, mine, the inhabitants, is what it's called and it's one, that's one. big house with many rooms that you make your own checkin, that is, it's all with codes and such. And this is our room, as you can see, very humble, it has two two small beds here, you see, very very very rustic here, closets and such, and a bathroom that is shared. a bathroom that is shared here in the hallway but at first it seems that only we are going to use it, I don't know, it's not bad because in the end we are only going to use it to sleep and shower because we are going to be outside all day these days. which is more than the only one that is a little far from the center, about 15 minutes or 20 from the central point of the main avenue, but hey, nothing happens, we are here crossing Fifth Avenue, which is the one I passed before the day I was bursting with people now there are still a lot of people but well it has gone down a little bit and it is very good because even the large chain establishments like for example Starbucks which is where we have entered now that you are seeing here it is very good because it has maintained the façade maintains the same architectural style as the rest of the avenue, which does not clash. It does not have the traditional colors of the brand but rather maintains those of the traditional colonial ones here and it looks super pretty. The truth is that it is one of the most beautiful Starbucks. cool that we have been above It has many years that it is only the façade but inside it also has Fuentes it seems like it was in the center of [Music] Rome we have now come to have dinner at a good place that has very good ratings called 27 inside and we are eating here some traditional food that we already had because there had not been much opportunity. The truth is that they did not offer it that much in other places I have been so far. It looks very good, obviously it is already of a slightly higher level or Either this is not where all the people in the market that you have seen that are full to the top are stopping, they do not come here or that is because the prices are no longer so local. But hey, Carlos, who has come now because there was no I have n't eaten all day either so I need to eat I have eaten a couple of hours ago so well I'm quite served But well this way I'll also try a little bit of local food now and we're going to try here in concept by the way Hello Carlos such Carlos Well now I have told you that he will be here with me for a few days here in Guatemala and tomorrow we need energy for a rutilla that we have tomorrow is going to be light and we are here trying Pepi, what is it, you know, you have agreed on the song Noe, whether it is turkey or chicken and It's a stew exao it's like a soup with a stew this chicken carrot has about a few vegetables and it looks good and they put rice over here it also has some corn tortillas that are below here and then they have also put us here as an appetizer They were some Brussels sprouts with a sauce of I don't know what But well, it's quite delicious But well, you see that everything is very pretty to then justify the price a little, that is, the place is also very cool, you see here it has the little fountains and such. and we are also going to try a local beer that in fact we are no longer drinking, which is this one here which is the goat that is the companion of the rooster the rooster is the most famous in principle it is not the one served that is consumed here and the goat is the one they export, yes in this case ours is a goat because there was an offer there was two for one on goats so we have already finished dinner we finished dinner with a guava flan that was good It had a very very average flavor of flan but It was delicious and that is recommended. I have already said that the prices are a little higher than the average for local food, but it was still delicious and we are going to close on the day, which is already too late for us. Because tomorrow we have to get up early and we It's a pretty powerful excursion that has already been advanced but it's going to be a couple of days on a volcano So we'll see how it's going to be tough but it's definitely worth it until tomorrow