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Quetzaltenango, What a Great Little City
By Neil Ransom | April 30, 2007
We have made our way through Guatemala to a less tourist town called Quetzaltenango. Turns out, it is Kate and my favorite Guatemala spot thus far. This morning we started Spanish classes at some school I can not remember the name of. It is going to be a blast. I sat through my 5 hour lesson without much complaint (first time I have sat for 5 hour without complaint). Don’t be fooled by the photo, it is not from Quetzaltenango, but from Antigua. Anyway so Quetzaltenango is great. We have had superb affordable food, slept on a good bed, and enjoyed the smaller tourist population immensely. Yesterday we went to a LDS church that is about 5 minutes walk from our hotel and enjoyed the service and meeting all the members. Afterward we needed money to pay for the hotel and all the ATMs in walking distance were ether locked up or broken so we had to take a little taxi-van to a giant shopping mall about 6km from where we are staying. It was a strange experience; a mix of American shopping mall and Guatemalan market. Noisy, fast-foody, and clean. Oh there was a Nuskin shop in the mall, crazy. We made it home with loads of cash, paid our hotel, and then went to a dinner at Blue Angle’s Cinema Restaurant, or something like that, and watched 7 Years in Tibet while eating a spinach salad and smoothie. It was a nice day. Quetzaltenango is a fun little town. We are going to be here for a week and will keep you up to date on all its happenings.
Adios
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