"Market Day in Chichicastenango...Nearly dying" Travellinlunas's photos about Chichicastenango

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Preview of Travellinlunas's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Chichicastenango, Guatemala Entry Title: "Market Day in Chichicastenango...Nearly dying..." Entry: "Well hello...! Today was an insane day...We decided to go to the market in Chichicastenango this morning. Chichi is an open-air market that is the most famous in all of Guatemala (perhaps in all of Central America)? We booked a round-trip shuttle from Panajachel to Chichi for $12 each! (Sidenote: We are so impressed with the infrastructure in Guatemala, particularly how advanced their tourism is...It's so easy! They have a shuttle system that runs throughout the entire country, as well as Honduras, Mexico, & El Salvador. You can make it across the entire country for $10 - $22! And the roads are excellent compared to neighboring Costa Rica!)...Anyhow, in order to get the 8am shuttle from Pana, we had to go down to the dock to catch a lancha by 7:30am. It was Tony and I, and a couple of guys from our hotel that were going. The lancha stopped in nearby Jaibal and loaded up more passengers before stopping in La Casa Del Mundo. Um, yeah right. There were 50 people on the boat and the back of it was sinking. There was NO way we were going to get on and so we directed the driver to keep going. Fortunately, about 10 minutes later another lancha (not on the verge of sinking) came to get us. We ...