This was the kitchen
I love these flowers, Bird of Paradise.
They had these macaws all around the garden of the convent.They are beautiful, but very noisy.
These are pictures from Antigua.
This handsome lad was at the jade store.
More of Antiqua.
As we were walking around all of a sudden all these people started running down the street. We figured that was not the best place to head so we went the other direction. Later when our driver came back to get us he told us that some players from Real Madrid, a soccer team, were getting off a bus to look at a jade store, and all the people were running to see the players and get photos. Our driver actually got a picture with one of the players. He was pretty excited about that.
This is El Volcan de Fuego which still spouts off and has some minimal lava flow.
Here we are in front of Fuego.
We stopped at a place that was selling alot of textiles and up stairs was this museum of the clothing that the people in Guatemala used to wear. Each town had a distinct pattern that the people would wear. Here are just a couple of the styles of clothing that they wore.
We stopped at a shop called the Apple Factory and here they make beautiful wood things, fruit, bowls, plates. It was such a fun place. As we were going out, we saw this man rough-cutting this block of wood with a machete. It will become a pumpkin like he is holding.
Here he is with his paint pots and some of his work already done.
These are the fun things that we bought there. They are napkin holders. Are they cute or what?
That evening we went to the Maya museum that was next to our hotel.
This is the mound they excavated and got some artifacts out of for the museum that makes up part of the MiraFlores Mall, the mall parking lot is in the background. Apparently they excavated it and then covered it up again. Part of the museum is under this hill, including the skeleton of someone who was buried there.
These are some of the artifacts that they uncovered.
These are pictures from Antigua.
This handsome lad was at the jade store.
More of Antiqua.
As we were walking around all of a sudden all these people started running down the street. We figured that was not the best place to head so we went the other direction. Later when our driver came back to get us he told us that some players from Real Madrid, a soccer team, were getting off a bus to look at a jade store, and all the people were running to see the players and get photos. Our driver actually got a picture with one of the players. He was pretty excited about that.
This is El Volcan de Fuego which still spouts off and has some minimal lava flow.
Here we are in front of Fuego.
We stopped at a place that was selling alot of textiles and up stairs was this museum of the clothing that the people in Guatemala used to wear. Each town had a distinct pattern that the people would wear. Here are just a couple of the styles of clothing that they wore.
We stopped at a shop called the Apple Factory and here they make beautiful wood things, fruit, bowls, plates. It was such a fun place. As we were going out, we saw this man rough-cutting this block of wood with a machete. It will become a pumpkin like he is holding.
Here he is with his paint pots and some of his work already done.
These are the fun things that we bought there. They are napkin holders. Are they cute or what?
That evening we went to the Maya museum that was next to our hotel.
This is the mound they excavated and got some artifacts out of for the museum that makes up part of the MiraFlores Mall, the mall parking lot is in the background. Apparently they excavated it and then covered it up again. Part of the museum is under this hill, including the skeleton of someone who was buried there.
These are some of the artifacts that they uncovered.
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