Learn Spanish, See the Sights

When we went to Guatemala last year to learn Spanish as a family, we made plenty of time for sightseeing, too. We spent our mornings studying Spanish at one of the many Spanish schools in the old colonial capital of Antigua. In the afternoons we wandered around town to see old church ruins, Antigua's central park (the main gathering place for everyone who lives or visits the city), and the marketplace. On weekends we undertook more adventurous activities, which in my case included going on a hike to the top of Pacaya Volcano, seen here peeking from the clouds in a picture I took near the beginning of the hike. When you learn Spanish abroad, it's the extras such as sightseeing that really make it a pleasure.