On our first evening  back in Antigua, we arrange to meet up for dinner with an Aussie/Canadian couple who we'd first  met previouly a week or so back at our first hotel in Antigua then again at Panajachel.   We have an excellent evening in their company enjoying a pizza in a terrace  restaurant  they recommended, overlooking the ruins of the Ruins of San Jose Cathedral.

Next day we enjoy a breakfast of croissant  with grilled cheese and avocado at our favourite Bohemian French cafe.

Just around the corner  beside the Cathedral ruins, there is a small museum of Mayan artifacts. Some of the information is in English. Apparently the Mayans were practicing piercings of lips and ears and also skull compression starting in some cases shortly after birth.  They were also into filing their teeth, drilling them and inlaying them with semi-precious stones.  Many of the modern day Guatemalan and Nicaraguans have gold edgings around the edges of their front teeth, even young people whose teeth look otherwise healthy and we find out later that  this is a modern interpretation by the Mayan people of their ancestor's habits.