FINALLY! Our first port of call. Puerto Quetzel, GUATEMALA Thankfully no sea legs! 5 days of sea.. there was only so much Zumba I could fail at.
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| Guatemala |
We decided to do the Mt. Pacaya Volcano hiking excursion with the cruise ship. Apparently there are 37 volcanoes in this small country. 3 of which, we could clearly see looming over the city. This looked straight out of the movie Apokalypto. I have never seen volcanoes that looked like these 3... instead of wide large volcanoes with broken tops, these were all narrow and cylindrical with smoke coming out of each of them all surrounding the city.
When you reach the mountain base, there are about fifty Guatemalans with horses wanting to charge you $20 to ride up the volcano. We chose not to go this route in hopes of losing weight. These Guatemalans would follow us up the mountain waiting for the weak to give up. I ended up giving up going down but only paid $3! Being the mean bf I am, I left Alyssa to fend for herself. All in all, this was an amazing hike! It was definitely different than Seattle in that the scenery would change dramatically from grassy shrubs and trees to bare lava rock and smoke. Awesome.
After getting back to the port, a group of us decided to take a taxi to Porto San Jose and hit the black sand beaches! I rented a surf board to try and learn how to surf with Andy from San Diego. Massive fail for me, massive win for him. The hardest thing to do was to ride over a wave to get into the deep :( fun though!
Alyssa, being cool, donated her glasses to the Guatemalan waves. Thankfully she had a spare set of glasses. WHO THINKS OF BRINGING SPARE GLASSES!?!?! luckily she did!
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| View in the morning! |
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| yay! |
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| Mt Pacaya. It erupted less than a year ago.. |
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| wat? climb up? ok! |
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| base of mountain |
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| feels good man |
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| The next Peter Lik |
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| traffic jam |
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| Alyssa wearing pink so I can spot her in the distance from atop of the mountain |
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good news: horses are always there just in case you give up.
bad news: horses like to do wet farts and shoot out poop without warning |
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| getting high from the smoke |
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| finally made it |
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| The TOP! |
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| Our buddies from LA |
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| She also made it to the top. |
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| smogggg |
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| steep |
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| This was where I had a close call with the camera. Save the camera or save myself. Had to save the camera. Pretty sure that is where the blood on the pants came from. whew! |
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| Troll face |
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| Working for National Geographic with my Guatemalan Sherpa. |
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| The horse soon died after this. RIP horse |
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| My catch using just my hands |
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| Porto San Jose- Black sand beaches!! |
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| JESUS I AM FAT :( Andy surfs every day in San Diego. Guess that is what I need to do to look like him. I just look like I want to EAT the surfboard |
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| Told them we had no money so they sang No Dinero for us! |
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| nomnomnomnomnom |
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| Hi Island Princess! Bye Guatemala :( |
