Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Trip to Ixil

Monday morning we walked to the pier at Santiago and boarded the boat to Panajachel. We waited about30 minutes, then we zipped across the lake. There was a bus waiting to go to Los Encuentros. There, another bus was pulling out to Kiché. I had to go to the bathroom, but it was already rolling. In Kiché, we waited 5 minutes befoe our bus left for Nebaj. What an easy trip! We were there by noon!

Nebaj is the largest town in the Ixil triangle, a region that suffered incredible violence during the Guatemalan Civil War.


Here's a photo of the market at closing time, in the area where all the butchers are....

Were in Chajul now, at an internet place, and the keyboard is awful! I have so much to say, but it will have to wait...

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