(Fourth week in Quetzaltenango)
Week four in Xela, and still enjoying new foods! This pasta, tortilla, zucchini combo was accompanied by very tasty chicken stomach.
“Chinese” noodles
Lighting at Barrista Café
Finding the Reunion Island
Open air kiosk
We were walking home one evening (westward) and it was curious that sunlight was coming from behind us. We looked back and saw these brilliant clouds reflecting the evening light.
Diagonal 12, our school’s street
I graduated!
Sneaky pics of Julien hard at work on the other balcony
Chicken curry with rice
Orange limes!
Leisha and me; we took to singing her name to the tune of Simon & Garfunkel’s famous song The Boxer: Lei lei leish! Pshh!
Weekend field trip to the natural hot pools of the Fuentes Georginas with Jim and Helen from school.
Getting bold and standing up in the pickup for better views and more comfort. Our field-trip guide from school, Orlando, can be seen peeking out from behind Jim.
Julien, Orlando, and Santa María in the background
Patchwork fields
(Photo credit: Helen)
We arrived at the park and Orlando casually asked if we would like to take a little walk. A steep 35-minute hike later we arrived to this view; Santa María from a different angle.
Diving back down to the pools
(Photo credit: Helen)
The pools are fed by hot sulfur springs (though pleasantly were scentless!) heated by the Volcán Zunil and are framed by steep, high walls filled with tropical vegetation. There are four pools, one pouring into the next, making the top-most one the hottest.
Click here for a quick trip to the Fuentes Georginas!
Feeling toasty in the biggest and hottest of the quad-pools. Julien had to get out after about five minutes due to the heat.
Hanging out in the third pool
We befriended a friendly gang of Spanish who quickly asked for a group photo.
We walked down a dirt path to find some pools off the beaten path, the larger of the two the hottest pool of all, estimated 45C (115F). Julien lasted about 3 minutes, I lasted about 3 seconds, and our friend Jim roasted for about 15 minutes.
Driving through the afternoon clouds rolling in (Photo credit: Helen)
Zunil
Soup and avocado
A parade stormed by the café providing a nice break from Sunday studying/working
Chips with salpicón and, of course beans, plátanos, and queso fresco
This Framerican Life 
Cela vaut bien Caracalla (à Baden) en bien plus rustique ! J’aime beaucoup aussi les transports pour s’y rendre !
Bisous.
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The food looks so yummy!!
You two are more brave each day… standing up on the back of the pick up truck…
I never liked being on the road when the clouds enveloped everything… it scared me a lot…
I especially liked the picture of Anne in the middle…. you would have thought it was a mermaid…
The photos of the Volcan Santa Maria are so perfect… what a beautiful view….
What amazes me is that you are not bothered to much by the mosquitoes…
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et ils l’ont trouvé la Réunion? ca a l’air sympa les bains “bouillants”! ca doit bien te calmer 😉
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Ahhh! Las Fuentes Geroginas! El Abuelo, que siempre andaba buscando aventuras y sobre todo consejos para su exema (sabrás que tu abuelo Toledo tenía problemas de exema en las piernas, y algunos de tus primos lo heredaron … qué pena!…) pues más de una vez hicimos el viaje a Quezaltenango con un amigo de él llamado Neri Castro (tu mamá lo recordará) y por supuesto a las Fuentes Georginas, pero no por turismo,no. Con interés terapéutico. Creo que el resultado no fue tan eficaz, pero las aventuras eran siempre muy emocionantes
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Siii! Oimos de los poderes curativos de estas fuentes. Una maestra de Julien le contó que muchas mujeres visitan las fuentes después de dar la luz para reponer bien los órganos; el bebé tambien va y lo ponen boca abajo en los aguas y pegan los pies para asegurar que los órganos están en orden. Cuándo estábamos nosotros, no vimos ninguno de los dos prácticos…todas las cabezas encima del agua!
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