Guatemala Trip - Day Two - Tuesday

We began the day going to the Guatemala City Temple What a great way to start the day.
This is an old aquaduct that runs through the city.

Sites around downtown Guatemala City.

Presidential Palace

Catholic Church

Right next to the relief map is a grove of hormigo trees that was planted in memory of Guatemalan composers and marimba players. The wood from the hormigo tree is used in the production of marimbas, the Guatemalan national instrument and was declared the "Tree of Culture and Peace"

Here we are at the giant relief map of Guatemala

Later in the week we were taking pictures of these two volcanos

Another view of the map. This shows how we went to Guatemala, through Chalchuapa and Atiquizaya, which are in El Salvador. The welcome sign in the other post was on the bridge over the River Peace, or Rio Paz.

We all set our cameras on the wall that goes around the map and put them on the timer so we could all get in the picture. This worked out far better than we had any reason to hope.


The Relief Map

In the evening we had dinner with President and Sister Mask who are the president and matron of the Guatemala City Temple. It was a great evening.