Waterfalls everywhere.
This is the top of the first waterfall picture above.
Lake Atitlan is a mystic and sacred lake to the Mayan descendents here in Guatamala.
All of the mountains are shaped like volcanos. Some of them are active.
There is a kind of magic here.-----------------------------------------------------
We've been without internet for a few days so I'm posting those days now:
San Cristobal, Mexico to Panajachel, Guatemala – 260 miles
Ordinarily countries are separated by either a river or an artificial political line. Look at all the rectangular countries that make up the continent of Africa. No river separates Mexico from Guatemala. They are divided by a very distinct and prominent range of mountains. What is so different about the Guatemalan mountains is that they are all shaped like inverted cones. They are obviously more recently volcanic than the Mexican mountains. It is as if the Mexican range ceased volcanic activity 3,000,000 – 4,000,000 years sooner than those on this side. The effect of millions of years of erosion is obvious. We’ve marveled at it from Alaska, to Canada, to Wyoming and Utah. But these mountains are fresh. I believe we’ll be visiting live ones later this week.
The volcanic shape that is so apparent as you approach the border is rather ominous. They look threatening, and they are.
The other very obvious change is that the people are predominantly of Indian extraction. They are quite short and have typical Indian features. They carry massive loads of everything you can imagine on their heads. Several men today had tied huge bundles of sticks to their forehead and they rested the bundle on their backs as they trudged uphill to their homes. It looks alarmingly hard and probably shortens their lifespan.
San Cristobal, Mexico to Panajachel, Guatemala – 260 miles
Ordinarily countries are separated by either a river or an artificial political line. Look at all the rectangular countries that make up the continent of Africa. No river separates Mexico from Guatemala. They are divided by a very distinct and prominent range of mountains. What is so different about the Guatemalan mountains is that they are all shaped like inverted cones. They are obviously more recently volcanic than the Mexican mountains. It is as if the Mexican range ceased volcanic activity 3,000,000 – 4,000,000 years sooner than those on this side. The effect of millions of years of erosion is obvious. We’ve marveled at it from Alaska, to Canada, to Wyoming and Utah. But these mountains are fresh. I believe we’ll be visiting live ones later this week.
The volcanic shape that is so apparent as you approach the border is rather ominous. They look threatening, and they are.
The other very obvious change is that the people are predominantly of Indian extraction. They are quite short and have typical Indian features. They carry massive loads of everything you can imagine on their heads. Several men today had tied huge bundles of sticks to their forehead and they rested the bundle on their backs as they trudged uphill to their homes. It looks alarmingly hard and probably shortens their lifespan.
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