There is no single central bus station in Guatemala City . In coming passengers are simply dropped off on a busy but dim lit street in the downtown area of zona 1. From there you are on your own. Like bats in the night in search of moths , swarms of taxi drivers with sharp radar skill, circle the incoming buses. Each driver ready to pounce down on the first of the red eyed travellers stumbling out the door into a humid jungle of tar trails and fire breathing behemoths.
Competition is fearsome.
Sound waves coming from every direction. I ask one clean cut driver. I haggle . He excepts and away we go. Guatemala City, with its two and a half million people is the capital of this beautiful butcomplex nation, bearing its namesake.