Cheap Flights to La Gomera

La Gomera is located in Escuintla Department, Guatemala. It is classified as a municipality with Escuitla as the nearest city. La Aurora International Airport offers cheap flights to La Gomera especially for tourists who want to witness the Holy Week celebration in this particular place in Guatemala.

Hotels in La Gomera has special bookings for the Holy Week Celebrators as this particular religious activity attracts the most numbers of tourists in La Gomera. Holy Week starts with the "Domingo de Ramos" or the celebration of Christ's enter to the city of Jerusalem and ends with the celebration of the Easter Sunday or the Christ's Resurrection. If you have availed the cheap flights to La Gomera for the Holy Week or the Semana Santa in La Gomera, be sure to have your cash ready as some days like the Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Black Saturdays, banks and shopping shops are closed. People revered these days as holy and most activities are linked to religion. Many locals gather in the local churches for their Visita de Iglesias. Streets are usually filled with people celebrating Holy Week by exercising "religious vows” like processions and rituals depicting the sufferings of the Christ (Passion of Christ). Every household has their own prayer activities and serve special dishes like encurdidos and torrejas.

What makes La Gomera Holy Week celebration unique is the mixture of pagan and Christian belief present in every procession and activity depicting Christ's Passion. La Gomera has daily night procession of religious statues as well as a whole day market day where various religious artifacts from the locals are sold. Most of these are believed to give protections from the devils and some are used as talisman for good luck and good fortune.

The municipality has little to offer when it comes to attractions. Tourists come here for its unique Holy Week celebrations and most of them avail cheap flights to La Gomera to join the celebration as well as to renew their Christian faith. They also enjoy the special dishes that go with the celebration, as the locals are generous to have tourists partake on their tortillas and Frijoles and their famous tapado.