Road Trip Part 3: Guatemala: San Cristobal, Mexico to Huehuetenango, Guatemala
As much as I loved San Cristobal, and would have stayed longer if I could, I tore myself away around 10 am and headed south across the mountains, anxious to reach my first international border crossing into Guatemala. I followed the same highway 190 that took me into San Cristobal on to the Guatemala border where it officially becomes the CA-1, the Pan American Highway. San Cristobal sits at an altitude of about 7000 feet and Huehuetenango is at about 6200 feet so I have a full day feast of mountain driving ahead of me. I am fascinated by an increasing sense of contrast as I travel further into the heart of Central America. The geography is breathtaking and some of the buildings, particularly the Iglesia […]