Juayua 2012

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Juayua, “River of Purple Orchids” in Nahuatl, enjoys a cool climate which, particularly in rainy season, you will enjoy the charming fog that descends from the coffee plantationsin the area.
This municipality is one of the most important destinations of the Route of the flowers. Its popularity is due to the gastronomic festivals of all weekends located in the central park,where many families and friends gather.
It is as well as the central park, renovated in 1994, is the main stage for multiple local dealers who offer a wide variety of typical dishes, exotic andforeign style at good prices.
Also you will find sales of handicrafts made out of clay, wood and seeds; also clothing dyed in indigo and all sorts of objects with varying prices.
Get closer to themunicipality of Juayua and enjoy exquisite dishes that await you in the Gastronomic festival to impressive prices.

In Juayua frequent festivals are also held folk art, especially painting. Local artistsdisplay their works on the streets or in the very walls of the houses, becoming a decorated maze of various works of art, full of color and life to the people.

You can also go close to the centralpark in the happy trains running on Saturdays and Sundays from 11: 00 a.m. The cost per person is $0.50 USD for over six years old. Also if you want to have fun in a friendly atmosphere can board theBus Conga, from Juayua, Apaneca until, with the option of going in the cabin or in the second level, surrounded by live music while he travels for one hour. Your cost is $3.00 USD per person, whichmay consume drinks varied from USD $2.00 to $3.00 USD.

The main church of the village is a beautiful colonial style church, dedicated to the Lord of Juayua, whose image is a black Christ veneratedsince the post colonial era. Many parishioners come to this Catholic Church to venerate the image of the Christ that resembles the Esquipulas, very similar to the Guatemalan custom visiting, which...