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Saturday, July 28, 2007
Road trip, Guatemalan style
Early tomorrow morning the group and I will be packing up the ol' (well, fairly new actually) Hyundai van and heading out to see the "real" Guatemala. After a successful season of laser scanning and documentation at various locales around Guatemala City and Antigua, our director decided it would be a treat for us to see the parts of the country that tourists don't typically go. This primarily means the small indigenous villages in the southern highlands that are known for their markets and handmade textiles. Our first stop tomorrow will be a coffee plantation that is situated at the Maya Pre-classic site of Takalik Abaj about four hours west of Guatemala City where we are now. Our neighbor here owns the plantation and has a fond interest in archaeology and as a result has been incredibly generous to our project. He apparently has quite a bit in store for us at his plantation. After that is is on to some indigenous villages, including Chichicastenango which has one of the largest indigenous markets in Central America (pictured below).
Posted by Will at July 28, 2007 12:08 AM in Honduras/Guatemala 2007