BOOM!
CRASH!
BANG!
BAM!
CRRAACK!
CLUNK!
KLUNK!
THUNK!
THWACKE!
QUNCKKK!
RAKKK!
Give us a break a volcano kept us up all night!
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Acatenango
Fuego is a volcano that’s almost always having little eruptions.
Next to it is Acatenango
From Acatenango there are good views of Fuego.
We have finally learned our lesson regarding hiking so we took a 4×4 up.
So we only had to walk through the clouds for 45 minutes.
Fuego is very noisy.
Sometimes it makes loud booms like fireworks followed by thuds as the big rocks settle.
Other times it just rumbles like thunder.
There are nice views of the sleepy volcano too, but that’s less exciting.
There is a lot of ash blowing around up here, but only because it is cold.
The ash from the volcano blows the other way.
We will be spending the night up here so we can see the volcano in the dark.
We have a luxury tent for 9 people.
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Chetumal
We walked around Chetumal.
Matt protected the city from pirate invasion.
We watched an exciting ball game.
Matt wouldn’t let Kerri go down the slide.
Or go skating, even though no one here knows how to skate so she would probably be the best.
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Iglesia de San Juan
This is a Mayan church
It was built as a Catholic Church, and the Maya still say they’re Catholic
But the Vatican says they’re not Catholic just because they sacrifice live chickens in the church
And the floor is covered with pine needles
And they think coca-cola is ceremonial.
We weren’t allowed to take pictures inside, but it was mostly candles and statues. There’s no gaudy neon Mary like the approved Catholic church.
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San Cristobal de las Casas
San Cristobal has a fancy carved sandstone church
With netting overtop to keep the birds…in…
They had a Christmas parade
The city is surrounded by mountains
There’s another church at the top of the hill
Yes, those are some classy neon lights at the front.
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The door was decorated with a flower mosaic, which was pretty neat
And it had more colourful banners
But it was a long climb up from the city
The view from our hotel roof was nice.
We also went to Sumidero Canyon but can’t find the pictures for some reason. But we do have this picture of ferns growing over a waterfall which Matt thought was neat.
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