Guatemala

I was mostly focused on Touchable Earth but managed to get to the three UNESCO sites

Antigua – the old capital city destroyed by earth quakes hence new capital in Guatemala City. Its a beautiful colonial town very popular with backpackers.

Quirigua – no one had heard of this – its harder to get to and much smaller than the other ruins in the area – but I enjoyed it. Has the largest free standing stone structure in the world – possibly now supported as it fell over in an earth quake and was damaged while putting back up. I wanted to visit in context of Copan ruins (Honduras) as Quirigua went over and killed their famous leader 18 Rabbit around 1300 years ago which was impressive given the relative size difference.