Antigua draws people from many foreign places.

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This is a cript. Someone is always praying as evidenced by the candles.

Antigua may be the most outstanding and best-preserved colonial city in Spanish America. Tourists visit Antigua every year from around the world to enjoy its natural beauty and historic monuments. The Spanish Colonial style permeates every part of the town: its houses, churches, squares, parks and ruins, also its traditions and folklore as well. Antigua is a city of charm and color where you can see and buy an overwhelming variety of attractive, handmade products that honor the traditions of generations of artisans.

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Antigua has many ruins that are in some phase of restoration.

This is a column which fell. The historians want to keep it here to show the that it fell but that later they would replace it. Something like that.. where is Havierre' the tour guide?

Very clear differences between original and restored.

He moved...

Most worshiped symbol of Christ.

The 12 apostles of Christ depicted around this church entry.

The Virgin Mary.

Lots of people get married in Antigua.

These Poloroid vendors hated seeing all of us with digital cameras.

The public square in Antigua.

All the guys did more than a double-take on this fountain.

This was the answer! Steps go up this arche on one side to a bridgeway to the other side. Voila! I don't see the nuns, do you?

They got so full that they had to buy more property. Trouble was, there was no adjacent property and they had to buy it across the street. Whats the problem? Cloister nuns can not be seen going outside in public!

The name says it all. This was the home of the Cloister Nuns.

Keep the dog off the artwork. You too gringo!

For the religious ceremony. These street carpets where in some cases very detailed and made of all natural things like flower petals and pine needles.

Cathedral where Jeff Berninger of CoEd married his Guatemalan wife in Antigua.

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Some men getting ready for the procession. 120 men pay for the priveledge of carrying the statue of Jesus through the streets of Antigua for 12 hours.

.I don't know the significance of the dress. These men look like arabs while the ones on the other side look like Knights of Columbus. If anyone knows please comment here.

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Bobbie spotted that trap door in the floor down there and Havierre' gave her props for noticing. Way to go Bobbie!

Havierre' our tour guide in Antigua. He was so knowledgeable.

Roof of the old convent.

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Coventry Garden. I mean convent garden.

Looking down the ole 'oop shoot'. There was at one time running water down there to ferry away the 'oop!

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The groom didn't seem to like my picture-taking.

The bride posed just for me!

One of the folks in our group said that it isn't unusual in Antigua to loose power at night. Although this never happened we did have an quake at 3:30 a.m. according to many. I slept right through it. One of the girls caught a man trying to come in through her motel's window. One of our own guys climbed in through the window as not to wake his room-mate.

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Outside the old convent in Antigua.

Are the two of you really long lost brother and sister? Sharon Dyson and David Harris

I want to do this in my shower at home..hook up electric right to the shower head. What a way to wake up in the morning! bzzzzzzz! yeoh!

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