3/13/26-3/14/26 Guatemala Journey Day + Day 1

After a really fast night time of sleep, we gathered on the airport at 4:00 am on Friday to board our flight. Everyone was each very excited and never completely awake. With a protracted wait to verify our luggage and a large TSA line, we barely made it on to our airplane (by means of the ability of Adithya, getting the airplane to actually flip round and look ahead to us). After two flights and a layover, we made it to Guatemala City round 4 or 5pm. We took a shuttle to the lodge and received our first impressions of town. At dinner, I had my favourite meal of the journey: cheese pupusas, chips with guacamole, beans, fried plaintain with chocolate, and a cabbage dish. The subsequent day, we had breakfast on the lodge which had an insane array of pastries, fruits, and different dishes. We received ourselves and all our baggage into busses and drove about two hours to Iximche, an archaelogical web site and historical Mayan metropolis.

Here, we realized extra about Mayan tradition from a tour information. He defined that the phrase “Mayan” describes indigenous Guatemalans over a spread of time (together with AD and BC) and areas. We noticed a latest plastic recreation of a stone column inscribed with an historical writing system and our information defined about how the Mayans invented zero, recognizing it as the start fairly than nothingness. The metropolis consisted of three household dwellings that have been supported by different individuals working outdoors the compounds. Througha mixture of violence, illness, and openness of the Mayans to Spanish settlers, town was destroyed and burned to the bottom. One of probably the most fascinating issues we noticed have been the constructions the place sports activities competitions probably befell. While there wasn’t document of their use at this web site, in related cities, individuals have competitions utilizing a ten pound rubber ball managed with their hips and knees. The final household dwelling within the metropolis was the one energetic spiritual web site designated by the state for Mayan communities to proceed holding rituals. Since it was the farthest and possibly most inconvenient web site to stroll to, this sparked a dialog about how preservation of historical past usually tooks precendent over respecting trendy Mayan tradition.

We stopped for lunch earlier than making the remainder of the journey to Panajachel. We checked into our lodge and received dinner on the Circus Bar, a neighborhood restaurant only a brief stroll away with pizza and stay music.