Coblestone filled streets, Maya women wearing colorful textiles, colonial architecture and a large volcano that leads you south. Antigua has it all.
The last two days have been rough, but I’ve been feeling a little better each day. Miriam made me delicious pancakes and I headed into the city. After spanish class, two friends and I headed to the mercado (market) to get some lunch. We bought a avocado for 3Q (€0,40) and asked the lady at the Torta stand to prepare it. She added it to the Tortas which made themeven more delicious!
Imagine that a sandwich and a taco got married and had a kid. That kid would be named Torta. Bread, meat, cheese, veggies. A torta is a Mexican sandwich. It’s a fluffy bun soread with butter and topped with anything you can imagine – refried beans, creamy avocado, spicy peppers – and piled with meat(s) and cheese(s) of your choosing. A torta has similar flavors to a taco, but the bread adds a whole new dynamic.
After lunch we headed to their place to look for a plan for tomorrow. They wanted to go to semuc champey, the beautiful waterfalls to recharge, and I would maybe join. In the end I decided to stick to my own plan and go to Lake Atitlan. I left their place and started wandering home.
On my way home I facetimed my old roomies from Utrecht to show them around the city. I really miss them and our cat Jonko, so it was lovely to be able to see them. It was midnight over there so they went to bed and I headed to my place.
It was the last dinner before leaving and the whole family, including grand children, sat together for some homemade taquitos and beans. I was invited to go out that night, but decided to stay in instead. I still had to pack my bags and figure out how to get to Lake Atitlan from here.
