Making way for traffic through landslide near Nahualá.
Making way for traffic through landslide near Nahualá.
Buses, including ours, waiting for lanslide near Nahualá to be cleared.
Temple Menerva in Xela (Quetzaltenengo)
Horses grazing in Xela
Parque Central in San Marcos
Jen working at the Municipal Building in Ixchiguán
Ixchiguán
Ixchiguán
Overlooking cemetary in Ixchiguán
Boot in dusty road -- In some places the dust was several inches deep.
Ixchiguán cemetary -- The crypts are re-decorated each November.
San Cristobal-Ixchiguán "Hollywood" sign
Cobbles -- these were being dug out with pick-axes.
Volcán Tajumulco -- as seen from Jen's roof.
Horno de lamina -- We succeeded in baking on a wood stove.
Yuccas in Choanla
House and pila (wash basin) in Choanla
Out front at work-site in Choanla
Adobe house -- where we were building a stove.
Jen carving chimney for stove
Choanla
Piedra partido (broken rock)
Volcán Tajumulco -- as seen from road between Choanla and Ixchiguán.
Horses out to pasture -- an excuse to stop and catch my breath.
Roof on Jen's house in Ixchiguán -- Many houses are in a perpetual state of construction as more rooms are added one by one.
View from bus between Ixchiguán and Choanla -- The far peak near center frame is Santa María, the active volcano near Xela.
Choanla
View from road in Choanla
Potatoes at work-site -- these were probably seed for the next round of planting.