Guatemala trip

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View from Mark & Jennifer’s

balcony. You can see one of the

volcanoes is blowing steam today.

View of Guatemala City from a nearby highway.

This pic was taken on our trip to Antigua.

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We spent a day in Antigua, the

historic Spanish colonial capital

of Guatemala.

Here I am in front of the Santa

Catalina arch with a hazy Volcan

de Agua in the background.

5La Merced church opened in 1767.

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Looking down into the

courtyard at La Merced.

7Mark & Jennifer on the terrace

8A cemetery in Antigua

9A “chicken bus” is the cheapest way to get around in Guatemala.

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11At the market in Antigua

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Dried fish and other seafood

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Onions. Notice the

woman is balancing a

basket on her head.

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Mark, Jennifer and me on our mule ride at the coffee plantation.

Our mules had names of democratic U.S. presidents:

Mark is riding Truman, Jennifer is on Carter, and mine is Lyndon.

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At this plantation the coffee bushes are

shaded by a species of trees from Australia.

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Our coffee tour guide,

Esteban,

is teaching us about

harvesting coffee.

19These women are sorting the ripe coffee beans from greener ones.

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Coffee beans drying in the sun.

These beans have the skin and hulls

removed, but are not yet roasted.

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This is the room where

coffee beans are

roasted and ground.

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On the hike to

Volcan Pacaya.

This is where we

left the horses and

started hiking.

23Looking up at Volcan Pacaya

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I’m roasting a hot dog

over a hole in the

ground. It’s very hot!

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Mark and me on a “fresh”

volcanic field below Pacaya.

This volcanic rock was

deposited last May.

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Mark on the hike down

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