Thursday, December 18, 2008

El Volcán (the volcano)


Kelly está lavando la ropa.


cafe


This is the San Miguel (a.k.a. Chaparrastique) volcano. Our pueblo´s police officers are incredibly friendly and took us on three guided tours of the region in their police trucks. We now know almost all of the cantones (very rural areas) in our municipio. We also saw beautiful sites: the volcano, the ¨laguna seca¨(dry lagoon, really a huge crater), hot springs, boiling ponds of mud (Yellowstone-esque), etc. We saw extreme levels of poverty (cantones without water) and luxury (the hacienda of one of the so-called 14 Families who--before the civil war--owned basically everything).


Kelly y la laguna seca


We could see, in the distance, the volcano of San Vicente (our training site). Also at this summit, we could see trenches leftover from the war.


Kelly and tree


coffee country


another amazing tree


tarantulas strike back!


Bruce, after the kill

1 comment:

Kevin said...

Bruce, you're like Johnie Buffokill. Except you kill Tarantulas, Bruce Tarantokill.