{"id":2539,"date":"2013-05-08T02:12:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T02:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=2539"},"modified":"2013-05-10T03:39:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T03:39:05","slug":"8-may-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=2539","title":{"rendered":"8 May 2013..Hello Guatemala!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Knowing that I had another border crossing to do again today, I was on the road out of Copan by 07h30 to the border only 10km away. Expecting this to be an expedient exercise because of getting there so early and beating the crowds was naive of me. Whilst it was indeed quiet on arrival and immigration was a 2 minute affair, the Honduran customs inspectors were having a leisurely breakfast, and continued to do so for nearly an hour after I had arrived there! So much for a 24 hour border post. You gotta love this part of the world! Guatemala immigration and customs were efficient but for the long queue at the bank to pay for the insurance so although I was at the border post by 07h45, I didn\u2019t get out of there and on the road to Antigua until 10h00.<\/p>\n

\"Days<\/a><\/p>\n

Short 300km run today\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hotel Yat Balam<\/a> in Copan. I really enjoyed this little 4 roomed hotel. Mine was the one on the top right!!!<\/em><\/p>\n

The roads from there to Antigua were mostly pretty good and the last 100km towards Guatemala city was fast 4 lane highway and I arrived in Antigua shortly after lunch.<\/p>\n

I am spending two nights here at a great little boutique hotel called Posada de Angel<\/a> which is in the centre of the town and is once again an old house renovated into a hotel. Tomorrow I will get up early to explore the town and take pics but today I have to catch up on work emails etc.<\/p>\n

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The pool in the courtyard of Posada de Angel.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Knowing that I had another border crossing to do again today, I was on the road out of Copan by 07h30 to the border only 10km away. Expecting this to be an expedient exercise because of getting there so early and beating the crowds was naive of me. Whilst it was indeed quiet on arrival […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theamericas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t