Sunday March 1st, procession to Church
participant
Ginormous retangular wooden pedestal with Jesus carrying a huge cross
the men and women switched on and off, carrying the huge ¨float¨
A guy´s job was to lift the power and telephone lines with the wooden contraption, or else Jesus would be electrocuted, a risky job and action, I thought
¡Chinese food here is all the rage!
The first church built in Central America, in Salacajá, San Jacinto Church, by the Dominicans
Lions guarding the sanctity of the church
A sign on the church prohibiting littering and urinating
a black Jesus, a popular image here in Guatemala
A man using a ¨taller a pied¨ basically a weaving machine operated by feet. These fabrics are used by Mayan women.
They do their own dying, in the mornings, which takes place in the streets b-c the yarn is quite long.
I was shocked to see a confederate flag in the weaver´s workshop, upon asking about it, apparently, one of his workers went to the states and bought him back a souvenir, a confederate flag, hmm
The guy is quite an entrepreneur, he also makes moonshine, ¨caldo de fruta¨ he soaks fruit in rum for 5 months and sells the liquor to locals and tourists. The fruit is also is for sale.
recycled glass factory
oven to temper the glass
final stages of production
enjoying some coffee, overlooking the plaza
in the middle of the plaza
Saturday market at Mercado Democracia, near my house
Xelajú, Quetzaltenango, Xela
Volcan Santa Maria
on the way to Fuentes Georginas, you can see the steam rising at the top of the tree line
Fuentes Georginas, hot springs
a ton of onions
Fabrica de chocolate, Chocolate factory
Cacao bean, at first taste, plesant, but then increasingly bitter
traditional tools in making chocolate
making the chocolate
adding cinnamon (cañela) to the chocolate and sugar
blocks of chocolate to make hot chocolate
weighing and patting into the containers
Lago Atitlán
Women washing their clothes in the lake
laundry in the lake
volano
Posada de Santiago, beautiful hotel
Casa Rosa, our home for the night, amazing lodging
outside our room
St. Maximóm, with a cig in the mouth and alcohol in hand
door of the hotel
kids at the dock
Festival Atitlán
ex pat hippie, 1st of many outfits
quetzal
expats dressed up as ....
tradtional male clothing of Santiago
market on sunday in santiago
some artesinal stuff
The beginning of making my scarf, the process is ¨debanar¨and the machine is a debandera
2 hours of spinning, my colors for my scarf, with lent purple being the main one
The process is Urdir, the tool is a urdidor, i had to wrap the yarn around the pegs in the order i wanted
Weaving! tejar in español, the stick is called a Trama (the name of the weaving cooperative)
Almost done weaving! The whole process took 10 hours, for one of the women at the store, it would have taken them 5 hours!
