The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

There is a Mayan Church in Chichicastenango

It was less weird because it’s Vatican approved, but it still has a lot of candles.

The Mayan Ceremony we went to was outdoors, because it wouldn’t have been allowed in the church.

I’m not sure if that’s because it involved drawing a skull in sugar

Or because it involves heaping a bunch of flammable things and setting them on fire.

There were candles at the four compass points too, but that’s a normal church level of fire.

The first layer of the heap is pinecones

Then candles, chocolates and cigars.

Then they lit everything on fire

After it was burning they tossed some more candles into the fire.

Chichicastenango is known for having the world’s most colourful market.

The person who gave it that award was not looking at the market from above.

The fruit and vegetables were very colourful.

The corn wasn’t that colourful.

But it did have more colours than ours.

Their cemetery is also colourful

The tombs are painted lots of pretty colours.

Much better than our boring grey on green grass.

Some had rebar sticking up so that they could add extra storeys.

Some of them were very tall.

There were some boring grey crosses

I don’t know why you would do that when you could paint them pretty colours.

I guess you can’t paint your own cross

You should get someone to do that for you.