Guatemala: Our Man In Central America

In 2004, we went to Guatemala to visit David, a friend from Venezuela that I hadn’t seen for more than twenty-five years. We stayed with his delightful family.

Chichicastenango and Lago Atitlan

We go to Chichicastenango on market day and witness the strangely pagan firework procession from the church; we take a cruise around Lake Atitlan and stop off in the villages around its shores.

Tikal

We fly to Tikal, climb pyramids and hear about the end of the world from our guide. We wander in the jungle and see birds eating spiders.

Pacaya Volcano

David takes us up the active volcano of Pacaya, where we brave poisonous sulphur clouds and risk being bombarded with tephra bombs that David says land with a splat like red-hot cow pats.

Reflections

But the most amazing part of our trip, something we hadn’t bargained for, is that David reveals he was for over thirty years ‘Our man in the Caribbean’.

Published 29 May 2017, 86 pages, ISBN 9781912460076