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Community Service Trip to Parramos, Guatemala
Parramos, Guatemala
July 6-July 15
Day One: Friday, July 6
Princeton, New Jersey to Guatemala City to Lake Atitlan
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1. Even at 3 in the morning, the Princeton group manages to come up with a smile. |
2. Rainbow over Miami, a good omen! |
3. The airport in Guatemala City, like every other airport, was under construction. |
4. Dave checks our luggage. |
5. We board our bus at the airport for our ride up the Pan-American Highway to Lake Atitlan, with traffic some four hours. |
6. Aboard the bus. |
7. What passes for rapid transit in Guatemala City. |
8. Mt Atitlan, a quasi active volcano, one of 33 in Guatemala. |
9. A judicious place to eat. |
10. Retaurant Katok, we didn't eat here, we stopped to pick up Hana. |
11. What passes for rapid transit in Panajachel. |
12. A side street in Panajachel. |
13. Mount Toliman, overlooking Lake Atitlan, |
14. We take a short boat ride on Lake Attilan to get to our hotel. |
15. We had the water ferry to ourselves. |
16. Jon and Andreas enjoy the lake breezes. |
17. Some of the teenagers on the mission, Hannah, Katherine, Jeff, Margaret and Ann. |
18. Lake Atitlan, at 130 square kilometers and nearly 1,000 feet deep is the second largest lake in Guatemala. It is actually the caldera of a long extinct volcano ... |
19. ...surrounded on all side with cliffs, smaller volcanoes and not a few spectacular homes. Aldus Huxley called Lake Atitlan the "most beautiful lake in the world". |
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