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Anne & Carolyn's Panama Canal Cruise
Day 9 ~ Friday, April 5, 2013: Puerto Quetzal &
Iximché Pre-Columbian Archaeological Site, Guatemala
Click on all photos for larger images (unless indicated otherwise).
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| Passengers waiting (not so patiently) | Welcome to Guatemala before dawn | The mountain that looks like the Sphinx |
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| First view of the Volcanos | Volcano | Our guide Dario Moran |
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| View from the bus window | Welcome to El Tehar | Tile manufacturer at El Tehar |
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| Driving through El Tehar | Traffic director | El Tehar |
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| We had to wait for the bus to make a U-turn on the highway through an opening barely wider than the bus. | Farmland | Rest stop at Pueblo Real in Tecpán Note guards on left. |
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| Narrow streets in Tecpan | Woman making tortiillas ~ Detail 1 ~ Detail 2 | Mother & child |
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| Women walking along the road | Welcome to Iximché ~ Larger image by CWS | Museum building |
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| Model of Iximiché ~ Detail 1 ~ Detail 2 | Map 1 of Iximiché ~ Photo by CWS | Map 2 of Iximiché |
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| Stone sphere | Top shelf: skulls & obsidian Bottom shelf: ceramics & stone fragments |
Anthropomorphic Sculpture ~ Photo by CWS |
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| Stone yoke | Drawings of temple murals | Outdoor map of site |
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| New sculpture at entrance | Iximché | Mound |
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| Ball field (one of two) | Temple | Front of temple |
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| Dario explaining about rituals | Supervisor | Temple |
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| Altar | Dario explaining human sacrifices. He said the Aztecs were more cruel than the Inca. |
Dario explaining how the blood
ran down the sides of the altar ~ Photo by CWS |
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| Temples and altar | Walls | Walls & mound |
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| Mound | Walking to sacred place | Hill where locals still have ceremonies |
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| Near sacred place | Carolyn | Anne ~ Photo by CWS |
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| Church near Tecpán | Street scenes in Tecpán | |
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| Close encounter with a truck ~ I thought we were going to scrape the side of it, even after the truck moved a bit. | ||
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| Public laundry in Tecpán | Land slide along the highway | |
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| Pueblo Real, Tecpán | ||
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| Breezeway | We ate lunch at the restaurant. | |
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| Plaza with vendors | Man with son selling serapes | Young boy |
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| Scenes at Pueblo Real | ||
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| Countryside | School's out | Tire Store |
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| Colorful bus | Antigua | |
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| Volcano in the clouds | Man and donkey | Cattle |
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| Welcome to Guatemala - Daytime! | ||
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| Park | Puerto Quetzal | Photo by CWS |
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San Diego Old Town | Zoo | Puerto Vallarta | Huatulco | Puerto Chiapas | Puerto Quetzal | Panama Canal | Cartagena
Photos in header: Niagara Falls; Big Sur, CA; Golden Gate Bridge, CA; Sunset on the Baltic Sea;
Virginia Creeper Trail, VA; Emerald Lake, Yukon, Canada; Glacier Bay, Alaska; Sunset on the Pacific; Triple Falls at
DuPont Forest, NC.
Header Photo Credits: All Anne S. Napier except Niagara Falls by Herman Stubblefield.
Updated December 9, 2013