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I took another 2 1/2 week trip to Guatemala in March 2004. Here is a sampling of my pictures! This time I was in the highlands as well as in the Petén, which is the hot, humid north. |
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| Classic traveler's Guatemala scene - this is the Minerva market in Xela from a bus window. |  |
| Looking into the street from a hotel window, Todos Santos Cuchumatán - this couple are dressed in the standard traje or local clothing style of Todos Santos. |  |
| Todos Santos Cuchumatán - men on the street. |  |
| At the summit of the highest peak in the Cuchumatán Mountains - it's the highest in all of Central America that isn't a volcano, at about 3850 meters. I never got a view - it was pretty foggy as you can see - but it was worth the climb and the fog gave it an air of a Japanese print, I thought. My travel companions for the day... |  |
| Traditional Cuchumatán homes of adobe with hand-split wooden shingles, now rare (like the rest of Guatemala, tiles are being used). |  |
| An especially colorful front entryway in a rural home near La Ventosa, Cuchumatán Mountains. Note the turkey! |  |
| The Weaving Lesson - Todos Santos Cuchumatán. |  |
| Plowing a milpa with a wooden plow and a yoke of oxen, near Todos Santos Cuchumatán. |  |
| Todos Santos Cuchumatán from the lower slopes of the opposite mountainside. |  |
| Forests and rocks, Cuchumatán Mountains. |  |
| The rare pinabete or Guatemalan fir, Abies Guatemalensis, with epiphytes. Cuchumatán Mountains. |  |
| A main in very different traje, above Lake Atitlán. |  |
| San Pedro volcano, above San Pedro la Laguna, Lake Atitlán. |  |
| Sunset over Lake Atitlán, San Pedro la Laguna. |  |
| Sunrise over Lake Atitlán, San Pedro la Laguna. |  |
| Left: sunset over Lake
Petén Itzá, Petén (northeastern Guatemala).
Right: dugouts in Lake Petén Itzá. |
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| The base of a fine Ceiba tree, the national tree of Guatemala, near the ticket booth at Tikal National Park. The second picture is the top of the same tree, covered with epiphytes. | 
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| Temples one (also called Gran Jaguar, left) and 2 at the Gran Plaza, Tikal. | 
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| One of many inscribed stelae that tell the story of Tikal. |  |
| The less-often photographed eastern side of the Gran Jaguar temple, Temple 1. |  |
| A tunnel in the palacio de las ventanas, Tikal. |  |
| Two views of sunset from near the top of the highest building on the Acropolis Norte, Gran Plaza, Tikal. | 
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| Sahib! |  |
| Left, oscillated
turkey, a bird that may outshine the peacock! Tikal.
Right, a small crocodile near the Tikal entrance. |
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| In the garden of my
hotel, Tikal:
Left, colorful flowers. Right, a huge grashopper-like bug almost camouflaged in a euphorbia. |
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