The 7 day team

With some locals. The local guy to the left is wearing the traditional costume which they wear all the time. At the top he talked for about an hour about the atrocities he witnessed during the civil war which was fascinating but difficult to listen to. The war was particularly intense in these parts.

Onward from lake Atitlan

October 7th 2007
Gautemala At the end of the last blog I was approaching the end of my time at Lago Atitlan but had extended my stay for a couple of day haviong found a nice quiet hostel to relax in. My plan to move to the quiet town of Jaibalito on Lago Atitlan worked quite well for the first two days and I managed to get a little Spanish done as well as visiting a few more villages around the lake eit ... read more

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The Maya civilization flourished in Guatemala and surrounding regions during the first millennium A.D. After almost three centuries as a Spanish colony, Guatemala won its independence in 1821. During the second half of the 20th century, it experience... ... read more

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