Tues 27th September
Antigua is only about 50 miles away and shouldn’t have taken us longer than a couple of hours so we didn't rush to leave Panajachel and Lake Atitlan this morning.
Unfortunately we lost Bob within a few hundred yards of leaving the hotel and it was an hour before we found him again.
Then he decided that the Sat Nav was not taking us the way we wanted to go………
........another two hours later and after deciding the mud track was getting a little tricky we turned around.........
.............and ended up back in Panajacel. We then took the road the sat nav indicated which was the right one all along.
Our lunch stop was in the middle of nowhere. The coffee looked like grey mud but tasted great (it was organic) and the veggie soup and garlic bread was to die for. The contrasts are extreme, you have a restaurant serving food that you would be happy to pay top dollar for in London........
...........and these men who have been working on the fields that probably supply Tescos with all your vegetables (have you noticed how much of your veg comes from Guatemala).
After lunch we rode into the mountains...........
..........and along more roads that have been washed away.
View of the road from the top...........
...........and me riding along it.
Another part of the rural economy here is dredging the river beds by hand and then grading it for the local aggregate industry.
We eventually dropped down into Antigua, arriving at or hotel around 5pm.
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