Guatemala


Bus
Bus-trips are definitely something, that most of the people who travelled Guatemala will never forget. The feeling to sit cramped right between all those friendly people, driving from road hole to road hole is indescribable.


The market of Chichicastenango

Market in Chichi
.... market-day in Chichicastenango with it`s variety of colors: women in their traditional costumes with babies on their backs just wrapped into cloths, stores filled up with wooden masks, hand-made clothes ....


Zunil

Zunil
The atmosphere in the mountain-village of Zunil is completely different. The poverty of Guatemala is getting horrifying obvious here.


Tikal

Tikal
Tikal is, in contrast to other Mayan sites, still hidden deeply in the jungle. With junlge-sounds all around you, surrounded by monkeys jumping from tree to tree and snakes and spiders that frequently cross your way, you can imagine just too good, how the heads of the sacrificed rolled down the pyramides in former times.



Joachim Denk ,Dec 9st 1995