Winchester Virginia

Patsy Cline cemetary

House where Patsy lived

Shenandoah

Gettysberg

washington

The Whitehouse
Gettysberg address

Washington

Apollo 11
MOJ
School bus

More Guatemala

Textile Markets
Men's gear
Street festival
Jamie all packed up and ready to go

Antigua

Fuentes Georginas

Xela and surrounds

This church is San Andres Xecul, a beautifully painted church in a Mayan village. We also visited San Simeon. He is an Elvis like effigy who lives in the home of one of the villagers and people make offerings to him when they want something or someone fixed. He was smoking cigars and had plenty of alcoholic offerings. One women was throwing candles on a fire and raging away at him. It looked like she had been wronged in love and wanted him to sort out her ex!
The main square in Quetzaltenango. An old collonial town but lots of traffic and pollution from car exhausts made it not a good place to stay.

We visited thim man´s home in Salcaja. He weaves beautiful cloth and makes Caldo de Frutas - a very nice kind of fruit liquer.

We´re not sure what this was. The patterns are made from coloured sawdust outside the church.

San Fancisco El Alto Markets

The markets at San Fransisco el Alto are the largest indigenous markets in the region. Sunday was market day. Fabulous textiles but also food, animals, cheap clothing and household goods.

Bunnings Guatemalan style.

Pigs, chooks, ducks - they are all here.

Flores

This beautiful toucan was in captivity but we did see some in the wild - from a distance.

Tikal has some wild jaguars, but fortunately the only one we saw was in a zoo.

Flores is on a small island in a lake. It was very hot - the thermometer went past 50.

Tikal - Mayan ruins

Antigua

Collonade in Antigua.
Typical houses on the road to Flores.

Semuc Champey

Volcan Pacaya

It´s pretty hot standing this close to molten lava


Sunset view of Volcan Fuego - still active.

Antigua - 10000 miles away and 500 years back in time

Antigua is an amazing old collonial city. It was the capital city at one stage but largely destroyed by an earthquake in the C15th. The remains have been preserved and partially rebuilt but there are no new buldings. The streets are narrow and cobbled, old buildings and ancient ruins everywhere. The town is quite high and surrounded by volcanos.

These beautiful birds were in the grounds of Casa Santo Domingo - a museum come hotel/restaurant/conference centre.