Zunil,
Guatemala
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Today our group went to Fuentas Georginias (checkout their website,http://www.lasfuentesgeorginas.com/, for some pictures). We left from the school at 8:30 AM. Fuentas Georginias is "officially" in the town of Zunil. There is a short walk up from the parking lot to the Hot Springs. The mountain sights are breathtaking. It was pretty chilly (aka cold to me), but the water is very warm. Most of the group inched their way into the water because it was pretty hot. But not me. I stepped right in all the way up to my neck. At the back of the pool against the rock wall the water is a lot hotter. The rock itself is very hot, too. Where the water that comes over the top of teh rock wall is cold, but where it comes through the rock it is pretty close to boiling. It was soothing, although I had to get out once or twice and cool down. Afterwards we returned to Xela for lunch and to wander around the "mini mall" on one side of Parke Central and later to just take in the sights. There was some sort of Coke a ColaĻ"event" going on with clowns and a beauty queen and a juggler who also rode on a unicycle. Joe was trying to take a picture of the flags in teh park when the anouce pointed him out and had some of the girls there pose for him. While sitting in the park we got approached by quite a few people selling indigenous crafts. They were very persistent to sell us stuff, but we just as persistent not to buy anything. Then we went to an ice cream shop and I had an guanabana ice. Itīs my favorite flavor of ice cream and I have never found it in the States.
Tomorrow we leave at 5:45 AM for Chicicastenago and some gift shopping. We have to leave early because there is going to be a race tomorrow morning and they will be closing the streets off at 6 AM.
The rest of tonight will be quiet I think.
Hasta Luego!
