Hola friends! Thankfully we have learned more spanish in the past two weeks than just this greeting. We are enjoying the day to day goings on of life in Quetzeltenango (Xela) each day seeing some of the same sceens on the street and feeling more apart of the scene. Tomorrow we bid farewell to spanish class for a week and travel to Lake Atitlan for a bit of relaxing. The lake hosts a myriad culture of new age studies schools, yoga shops, middle easter restaurants and hostels made of recycled materials. The lake itself sits in the caldera of an ancient collapsed volcano. It is surrounded by 5 other volcanoes so there may be some hiking and we plan to visit one of the nature preserves in the region. This said the adventure begins on Saturday as we take our first long ride on a "Chicken Bus" the local version of an economy coach. I don't know if they got this name because of their cargo or because of how the drivers careen down the roads taking on all challengers! More to come....
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