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Community Service Trip to Parramos, Guatemala
Parramos, Guatemala
July 6-July 15
Day Two: Saturday, July 7
Santiago de Atitlan and Panajachel
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1. Breakfast was a choice of pancakes or eggs. |
2. The view from the hotel steps. |
3. Waiting for the boat to leave. |
4. Hanging out. |
5. Local vendors, hard at work. |
6. Working around was difficult, with very persistent local vendors. |
7. A view a Santa Catarina from the boat. |
8. Local fisheman. |
9. The ride across Lake Atitlan was nearly an hour. |
10. The nice part of town. |
11. Santiago Atitlan, one of twelve villages on the lake named for the twelve apostles. |
12. Liz and Ann go native and sport traditional mayan outfits. |
13. New construction in Santiago Atitlan. |
14. A break from shopping. |
15. Pitaya, they taste like kiwi friut but are a brillant purple inside. |
16. Local street market in Santiago Atitlan. |
17. The local amusement center. |
18. The Cathederal of Santiago (St. James) |
19. Many of the "santos" were damaged during the last earthquake, so the locals made them clothes to cover the damage. |
20. The altar piece in the cathedral was made in 1980, after the earthquake damage the original alter piece, and vandals carted the pieces off for sale to antiques dealers. |
21. The baptistry in the cathedral. Unlike Nassau, this font stays put. |
22. The courtyard in the cathedral, surronding by housing for the priests. |
23. Maragret, Hannah and Catherine outside of Father Patrick Greene's quarters. |
24. A funeral procession leaves the front of the cathedral. |
25. And we work our way in the other direction, through Santiago. |
26. Tomas, our guide, would stop us preiodically to explain some point of interest, which usually gave the street vendors and children time to surround us. |
27. Working our way through town. |
28. A street, sort of, in Santiago Atitlan. |
29. Listening to Tomas tell of Maximón, the alternate diety in town. Maximón answers prayers, or curses, but needs to be "bribed" with gifts of rum, beer or cigars. An audience with Maximón will cost a ketzel, about 13 cents, a photo is five ketzels. |
30. Maximón, with his cigar. |
31. Louise gets a traditional mayan headwrap from one of the stowaway vendors on the boat. |
32. Louise models the full effect. |
33. Glenn caches a nap on the ride from Santiago to Panajachel. |
34. One of our stowaway vendors and her daughter. |
35. Heather in a contemplative mode. |
36. City folks from Princeton marvel at avocados actually growing on a tree. |
37. The shoreline at Panajachel. |
38. Tres amigos. |
39. Diane and Margaret. |
40. Fredy, El Capitan. |
41. Nancy and Janet re-enact a scene from "The Titanic" without Leonardo. |
42. The real capitan, who ferried across Lake Atitlan several times. |
43. Kristin and Fredy share a birthday, one of several we would celebrate over the next few days. |
44. Kim cuts the cake . . . |
45. . . . and we all share it after singing "Happy Birthday." |