Cerro de la Cruz

Aleia, Kylie and I took a trip with the school yesterday up to Cerro de la Cruz. It is basically an area cut out of a small mountain that has a huge stone cross that overlooks the colonial city of Antigua. Our "guide" Manuel was telling us a lot about what the cross symbolizes for the city of Antigua. Seventy-five percent of Antigua is Catholic and while there is a great influx in the past years of evangelical missionaries, there is still a HUGE prevalence of Catholicism.

It was quite an experience going up the mountain. We left from the school and it only took us about thirty minutes to get up to the cross, but this hike included going up in elevation by taking several hundred stairs. Needless to say, we were panting as we were going up....I blamed it on the 5000 ft. more in elevation than we have in good ole Hartland, MI.

Once we got there, the view was absolutely breathtaking. I will let you see for yourself:

Y'all should come to Antigua just for this view...

-J