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We left the house at 5:45 with Shenny (our Guatemalan home stay mother) and Ina (another Spanish student staying with Shenny) to climb the Chicabal volcano. We met two of Ina's friends in Parque Central and caught two micro buses to the start of the walk. It was a steep track up a mud road to the visitor centre and an even steeper one after that to the crater's edge. Inside the crater is a lake which is considered to be spiritually important and it took us ~600 steep steps down to reach it. We sat and had an early lunch as a Christian group conducted a service not far from us with much singing and offerings of flowers to the lake. The clouds then rolled in to give it a mystical feeling. On a clear day we would have been able to view a nearby erupting volcano. After a walk round the lake we headed back to town in incredibly packed micro buses. (Katy counted 21 people at one point in a van designed for 12.) I left Katy at the house and quickly ran into town to watch the end of the Champions league final. (Real Madrid beat Atletico Madrid 4:1 after extra time.) That evening we both went back into town to celebrate Mark's birthday (a new Spanish student who we will probably bump into on Utila in Honduras). Katy and I left early as we were leaving Xela the next day but got fantastic take away tacos on the way home.
Simon
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