Snakes and Sacrafic

I´ve arrived in Guatemala after a week traveling through Honduras, on chicken busses [buses that you can take chickens on], passing over volcanos [well I took a tour of Pacaya, near Antigua] and through ancient Mayan Ruins. Now i´m at a Language School in Xela, learning Spanish and teaching English.



The snake video is from a Visit at Copan ruins Near the Honduran\Guatemalan border, it´s a Boa so not poisonous i think. The Mayans are the Civilisation\People recently back to public attention due to a prediction of the World Ending in 2012, which was made into a film. Not true! It is a prediction of a change in world order, like a paradigm change or something. They did not do as much sacrificing as the Aztecs, like in Apocolypto, but did it in moderation.



This is the Campo field, which was played with a solid rubber ball [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerican_ballgame], and if you lost then the other team got all of your belongings and you were sacrificed. I´ll do another post on Mayas because they are pretty interesting!



Next was the Volcan Payaya near Antigua, Guatemala. It had a landscape like Mordor, which gave good opportunity to practice Lord of the rings impressions and also had awesome signs that said Danger, rivers of lava



Now im in a language school in Xela, Guatemala. Today I was trying to teach kids how to play you are my sunshine on guitar, next week i will try some Nirvana. The music was dire in Nicaragua, only reggaetone and bachata. but in Guatemala theres more diversity, They like Metallica for a start!

Adioos