Thursday, March 24, 2016

Antigua Tours (by Elizabeth Bell)

www.antiguatours.net
We loved this tour - Elizabeth (the owner) knows the town (having grown up here) and knows the culture.
 Highly recommended.
I'm not even going to try and restate the history of this amazing town - I would most likely mess it up.

There is a cathedral in Antigua's park central (it's actually not a cathedral - but that's what the locals call it). Behind the cathedral is a ruins - we had fun attempting to be artistic in our photography.






This is at Santa Domingo hotel - they have an extensive collection of history and artwork.


She explained how you need to be on the right side of the procession so that you can look Jesus in the eyes.


One of the original walls in the art museum - I'm usually more fascinated by this than I am by artwork.

I love Pelicans so I thought this was pretty cool - notice the little fish?

The fountain in park central - notice this mermaid has covered herself?


This is what they measure the faithful's shoulders with - in order to carry the float level everyone must be the same height at the shoulders...it's all very organized and computerized.

Elizabeth Bell at the Jade Museum


Weddings have become big business in Antigua.
Also - we walked up onto the alter - to the left is a little doorway - through that is a really cool little art museum.

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