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Published: March 4th 2005
Arrived in Quetzaltenango, mysteriously but universally referred to as Xela, the day before yesterday. Took a long walk around town between about 11:00 and 16:00 yesterday, taking in the zoo (sleazy looking monkeys, bedraggled eagles, and a frightening children´s playground full of sharp bits, hand crushing chains, and of course poor wiring exposed to the elements and curious fingers). Having spent the week on the beach, I figured I had a pretty good tan, and besides it was cool so I left off with the sun protection. Forgetting that we were at 2000 meters. So by the end of the day I had a very charming farmer´s sun burn, and a promising looking rash developing on the back of my calves. Also made a very good attempt at losing the cheap clip-on replacement sunglasses that I bought in Puerto, but after an hour of walking around to various places trying to remember the spanish word for glasses a nice young maya lady laughed at me and produced the clip-ons. To top it all off, I have a very strange lesion growing between my nose and my lip.
We signed up for a trip to climb Volcan Tajamulco this weekend. Apparently hasn´t erupted in at least 500 years, although the way things are going lately I´m thinking Saturday is looking good for the next one...
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