14 August 2008

Guatemala Pictures (courtesy of Josie)

My camera went MIA while I was in Guatemala a few weeks ago. In all likelihood I left it on the tour bus back from Antigua, or in the restaurant bathroom where we had dinner. Luckily, Josie was taking beautiful fotos, and has shared them with me!! It was my plan to carefully pick thru the fotos, and only upload a few from each place, but it's just too difficult to decide!! So here's the address for Josie's Photobucket album:

http://s227.photobucket.com/albums/dd99/josita76/

I hope it works!! (looks like you have to copy and paste it into a new window).

When you open it (if it works), you'll see 4 albums listed on the left:
  • Antigua - the old "antigua" capital of Guatemala, you'll see fotos of colonial buildings, the remains of a cathedral destroyed by earthquakes (and some of us emerging from its underground catacombs), and other good stuff
  • Chichi & Atitlan - Chichicastenango is a very famous market town, and is where the Popul Vuh was discovered. Lago Atitlan is an amazing site, surrounded by volcanoes. I've heard many people talk about the energy of this area, it's definitely a place that deserves much more than a few hours!! The pictures show the market, a coffee enterprise that we visited (and taste-tested!!), and lots of pictures with the lake in the background. FYI - some of the stars of the lake fotos are little parrot friends, we each got one (thanks Silvia!!)
  • Guate - these are fotos from Guatemala City, lots of eating going on! There are some fotos from a special dinner that was at the Palacio de Cultura, to honor the participants in the 5th annual "Feria del Libro," so we got to go because Josie's dad was a presenter. It was a beautiful dinner, very fancy, and entertainment was the "official" women's marimba group of Guatemala. There were usually 6 people playing a giant marimba at a time, it was incredible to watch...
  • Tikal - I was back in Mexico for this part of the trip. But it looks amazing, and I'll have to get there one day... (jungle and ruins, who could resist??)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the link to the pictures, though it did not work as a link, had to copy and paste as you advised. It was great to see Josie's mom and dad after all this time....especially cool in the picture where they are coming up from the hole in the ground, quite the emergence.

The rest were great as well, see what grand things you have seen since beginning your travels again? And to see and share them with the Josie family made it that more special I am sure.

Talk to you in a little bit, we are all set.
Skype you later, Mom

Erica said...

Mom - you are so right. In just this one month I've already seen and done so many amazing things... And it was fantastic to share Guatemala with Josie, Silvia and José! It came at a time when I really needed to feel the comfort of friendship and family, it made all the difference for me to come back to Oaxaca ready for the challenge...

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