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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
THE END!