The arrival to Antigua yesterday added a new flavor to our group´s experience in Guatemala . Especially for those students who lack much travel experience, this city (large for Guatemala, but ¨town¨feeling to most foreigners) has color and colonial flavor that the lake-side communities don´t flaunt. Streets are all cobblestone, half the folks in them are not local, and most of the other half are catering something to the non-local visitors. Antigua: the number one tourist destination in the country. I am reminded why my undergrad study abroad group, focused on social justice and the neoliberal economy, chose to go other places. But now, 9 years later, I must admit I am relieved to have a 3 day break from the more isolating areas of the highlands.