panajachel
I´m tired tonight and have a bit of a headache, so for once, I´ll keep things short. We went to Panajachel today, which is across Lake Atitlan from San Lucas. Ana, Bartola, Anna and I went and we wandered around in the market there for about an hour. Before we went, we were talking with Tono in the mission and he told us Panajachel was full of white people. He wasn´t kidding. I think I saw more white people in 5 mins there than I have in the whole week. It seemed like a pretty typical market type place, a place where tourists go to buy cheap crap that was probably made in China or Laos or somewhere like that. They put ¨Guatemala¨on it and charge you 50 Quetzals and the tourists eat it up. Of course, 50 Quetzals is like 8 bucks, so it´s still not a bad deal. It just ain´t authentic.
We set up a trip up the Volcano today, for Sunday. We leave at 4 in the morning and hike all day. Vulcán Atitlan is about 13,000 feet tall and (as Father Greg said) is all uphill until you get to the top, and then it drops off pretty quickly. I´ve kind of been feeling a little sick today, so I hope whatever is bothering me today is long gone by Sunday. I´ll go anyway, but 13,000 feet is a hell of a climb and I´d prefer to be in good shape for it.
That is enough.
Goodnight!
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