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Schaffä ds Xela
... l und müänd dänn dä Eltärä hälfä schaffä. Währänd dä Schuälzit
chömäd d Chind am Namittag Hilf bi ...
Day 2, the survivors kick on, volcano erupts
... Pedro, the man of the house, was a great host. His family, i lost count of how many lived there was made more confusing by the fact there were two sets of young twins running around.
They cooked us a great meal and then we sat around the fire roasting marshmelows and were treated to a funny little concert. Don Pedro is a music teacher so all the kids were learning to perform. A few hilarious little duets from ...
The 3 day hike begins...
... mountain again which was a pretty steep descent. We ocassionally had to give way to the locals who were quite amazingly hauling extremely heavy and awkward loads up the goat track on their backs/heads. I couldnt quite imagine how they did it. Some of them looked to be in their 70s or even older but I guess they may have been younger as the tough lifestyle apparently ages them a bit prematurely. The necessity of firewoodfor heat and cooking obviously leaves them ...
The Villages of Lake Atitlan
... I do some hiking around on the rocks right next to the lake. It's beautiful. Eventually I come across the trampoline which is actually a wooden deck build about fifteen feet above the lake and it has a open section where you can jump off. Several people were sunning on the deck but no one was jumping. Darn, I didn't bring my swimsuit.
I could have wandered the paths of San Pedro for hours but I had another village to discover. Next ...
Rising Minds
... and access to education programmes that work. Guatemala’s history is a checkered one and if anyone is interested in learning more about it there are some interesting educational handouts on their website www.risingminds.org/learn .
In brief it started when United Fruit, an American Corporation, started exporting bananas from Guatemala. They started buying up a lot of land there at ridiculously cut prices and at one point owned almost 42% ...
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