astrid

Lava on Volcano PACAYA...

another amazing weekend couch-surfing in the capital.... Juan Carlos picked me up from my house in Antigua last night after my Spanish class.... he had another CS friend, Susanne from Austria, with him who had also been studying Spanish in Antigua for a few weeks as well..... so we all went back to his place in GUATE and had lots of pizza there with his family and Susanne´s friends Regina y Ricardo who came to pick her up and take here to the Pacific Coast the next day....

after Ricardo, Regina and Susanne had left, we went for a little walk around his neighborhood - yeah, walking around Guatemala city at night - in Zona 10, and we were really safe there too..... nice area as well and we even found a little bar called SABOR LATINO where I could show Juan Carlos some Salsa and Merengue steps....

this morning we had a great breakfast with Maria, his wife, and their kids Jorge and Amanda, and then left to drive to volcano Pacaya, about 30km from Guatemala city.... it was a pretty steep and tough 2 hours climb to the top of the volcano, but soooooo worth it (even though we got a little bit wet on the way back down)....

but as you can see on the pics here the lava rivers that we saw up there were just totally amazing.... we were about 50metres away from it, but could still feel the heat from the running lava and smell the sulfur in the air.... wwooowww !!!! I had never seen anything like that before and it was just great great great.... really felt like we were on another planet.... out of this world....

we also stopped by LAGO AMATITLAN on the way back to his house....nice lake pretty close to GUATE city...

so tonight I´m gonna meet Lucy and Byron again for some more salsa dancing than last SAT night... ;) and tomorrow we´re gonna drive to Lago Atitlan.... what a great weekend...!!

posted by Astrid @ 6:31 PM