Guatemala

Of the infamous violence I saw exactly nothing in Guatemala. Fact is that all the people I met along the way were so nice that I wondered how this country could possibly have experienced all the atrocities during the Civil War, or in recent years having earned the reputation of being a violent society.
That said, the news papers I read were full of notices of robbery and lethal crimes every day, so I guess it comes down being lucky, and to knowing which areas to explore and which to avoid.
I am sure that the country have a fair deal of natural beauty, although clouds more than often hid the best views from me when I visited.
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