These men asked Liz to take their picture. They are old friends and neighbors. This is the cathedral in San Cristobal. Its probably the biggest one I have seen so far. Below are shots from the hike through the hills of San Cristobal. In under 2 hours we saw three amazing waterfalls. I liked the house below that was being overtaken by the hillside and vegetation.
The entire hike followed the river that was full of inviting rapids. If there wasn't so much garbage and sewage in this river it would be really tempting to put in with a kayak...and if it wasn't class IV+. The last waterfall in the canyon was the most violent of them all. We sat and enjoyed the spray while the sun was out...it was the first sun in 3 weeks.
Supposedly the above waterfall is sewage water running down from San Francisco el Alto. If that was the case, it was the most beautiful and pleasant smelling sewage I have experienced.
Here is our adventure club in front of the only one of the waterfalls visible from the road. We also had to cross a rope bridge to get there. It was pretty cool the way it swayed as we ran across it.
There was no shortage of mud since it is still the rainy season.
Our adventure club also reached another milestone. We hiked the smallest extinct volcano in all of Guatemala. It just so happens to be in the same town as our friend Tony. We played cards to warm up and after bushwhacking for a few hours, getting lost and then being guided through the brush by some men working in their fields, we finally made it to the mayan altar at the top.
Since the 15th of September not a whole lot has been happening out of the ordinary, mostly just the day to day that isn't really worth commenting on. We have had a few exciting weekends lately and the above pictures hint at some of the experiences that we've had.
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Don't you wish you were here in the snow packing chocolates with mom and Julie.
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