View on the Way Back to the City

Love this picture of dad and I with the Lake and volcano behind us!




Miles and miles of people using very crude and BACK BREAKING tools to farm their land.




At times we were going so slow even the bikers were passing us.




I have seen landslides and roads washed out before but never like this and for miles and miles.

Those are volcanoes you are looking at.

One more quick word on the Lake; It is surrounded by 12 villages named after the twelve saints. We stayed at Panajchel as it was the closest and easiest to get to. Each village has it's own personality from New Age with tons of spa and yoga, to hippie, to party, to traditional. I can not wait to take the boats across to visit more of the villages.

We left at 6am to try and avoid traffic on the way home, esp. since it took us 5 hours to get there the day before. The roads were ofcourse still in really bad shape but it only took us about 2 1/2 this time. All along the way there are volcanoes and beautiful crop fields where they are farming EVERYTHING. We stopped at Chichoy and had the most amazing breakfast with homemade (right in front of us) tortillas and fresh orange juice. The drive to and from the lake is almost as beautiful as the lake itself. If it had not been for half the road being washed away it would have been great!