Out and about in Nebaj
January 12th 2009 High up in the Western Highlands, in the Cuchumantes Mountains, sits Nebaj, the largest of the towns in the Ixil triangle. Home to the small group of Ixil Maya it is rich in culture,blessed with beautiful countryside and scarred with history.
As the civil war raged from the late 70´s until ´96, fifteen to twenty thousand people were killed and nearly all of the smaller villages destroyed. The
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