Light see baroque style Guatemala City Tour

The Guatemalan government building

Settle down in the hotel, starting immediately according to the guidebook recommends walking route in Guatemala City sightseeing. Basically is one of main street in Guatemala City along Sixth Street has been down, the destination is the downtown Central Park.

See the appearance of the city, Guatemala City, the equivalent of about 20 years ago, the level of development of China's big city. The main road is the kind of a cement road, road surface patch clouds. Very few high-rise buildings, most buildings are reinforced concrete bungalows and four or five layer. Although the house is not beautiful, but looks are very strong.

A few buildings not are the basic government departments: court, post office, police headquarters, Guatemala City Hall. The Supreme Court building adjacent to boldly stood a tall tower, was painted red, the Coca Cola several characters for pedestrians on the way to see clearly, showing the history of the country, the United States of America have all kinds of connections with reality and contact. Today, the Guatemalan giants still like to pass the United States in Spanish Florida vacation, shopping, home, let the children go to school there.

The street shops are armed guards. When taking pictures of a guard, I looked at the place, is probably a store warehouse area of ten or twenty square meters, but the inside is empty beer bottles, crates. Reportedly, the number of private armed guards here than the regular police. The guards light brown skin, black hair, facial features is close to Asians, short stature, is typical racial majority Guatemalan population -- the Mayan appearance.

Guatemala City Cathedral

The national police headquarters building is Guatemala City look best a Spanish architectural style, with a pink and beige granite masonry, strong as the fortress, but the balcony and window lintel carved, reminds me of a Columbo visited in the southern Spanish town of Port St Mary's lived in the castle. I asked the police on duty request in pictures, was politely declined.

Into the Central Park have entered into the Guatemala City business district. The so-called commercial area, but the roadside some more shops, the main feature is a small street business people up, you put a stall, I shed; you pushed a small cart, I support a shelf.

Sell the things needed from daily life to all, to the spirit of food, goods are available in all varieties. Did not have a wide road, be they accounted for almost half of. They sell pirated DVD5 Quetzal (equivalent to 5 yuan) a, business than those who sell shoes, clothes prosperous lot, buyers are mostly wear jeans, T-Shirts, back backpack, wearing a baseball cap, young man.

Through the dense vendors area to Central Park. Although the name is park, in fact, is a square, the status of theory, the equivalent of Beijing's Tiananmen square. From Sixth Street into the square, is the face of a huge three stacks of fountain, fountain is behind the spectacular presidential palace. One side of the presidential palace is the cathedral, the other side is the national library.

The fountain is the ancient Rome style, the office of the president was a mixture of Renaissance style, neo-classical and Baroque style, mixed style cathedral is neoclassical and Baroque. The square is bursting with dove dove and chasing the children. Modern sculpture should not the National Library of the former group originated from the Maya sculpture, simply don't have a clue that I am one of the Maya of a foreign visitor in Central American countries.

The National Library in the next to the presidential palace, give me a very good impression. The porter looked at my passport and let me go. There are a dozen press room, the reading room only three two readers. Obviously, "book a house of gold" time has not come yet. The children's room clean and spacious, the ground covered with carpet, put some cushion, desk, chair, put on the wall according to the Andersen's fairy tale "the little match girl" story creation of watercolor painting and some other comics. There is a TV, VCR, and an apparently small puppet drama stage.

Such a reading room, even if just opened, the hardware facilities of world-class National Library of China. No. Unfortunately, here, I haven't seen a young readers. Out of the library, not far from the street there is a young mother in a street vendor selling secondhand books and magazines, two three or four years old children squatted sold through mother in the goods next to her. Perhaps, in the library reading in Guatemala or a luxury?

The warehouse guard

Raiders

Overview: the north end of Guatemala is located between South America and North America Continent Bridge, North and Mexico border, an area of 10 square kilometers, and China's Zhejiang province roughly. The land is small, but for the tour a lot. I think it is the most abundant tourism resources in countries in central america.

Visa: because there is no official relations, Guatemala and China so, Chinese tourists need to apply for a visa in the three kingdoms.

Traffic accommodation: Guatemala is the National Tourism facilities. Transportation and accommodation conditions are more complete, the hotel grade range, price and China.

Currency: Kachal is the unit of currency in Guatemala, 1 Kachal roughly the equivalent of 1 yuan.

Source: China Youth Daily