Guatemala City

I’d been told enough stories about the horrors of driving (or being for that matter) in Guatemala City that my plan was to immediately hire a taxi to lead the way across the city and for me to follow in the Landcruiser.

It didn’t work out that way. Guatemala City was actually a lot nicer than I’d expected. It’s a lot like LA, there are millions of people living there and it sits in a large valley twenty miles wide.

There are many differences between the two cities but one noteable one is that there are no freeways. The basic problem is that you have to cross twenty miles of solid, complicated, confusing city on surface streets.

I pulled out the GPS when I first entered the city. I noted the point I wanted to exit at and started driving holding the GPS in my hand and turning where it felt good.

It worked great! I took an unrepeatable path but i think it was a pretty efficient one. Most importantly it got me to my destination of Antigua.