incredibly colourful Guatemala!

 

Loving the traditional clothes and their colours!

 All hand embroidered! So much work....

 A cathedral in Antigua...

 Nearly all the girls and women wear tradtional clothes every day...

 

The tradtional music played on a Merimba on the street..

 

I bought some beautiful watercolours from this street artist, beautiful!

 Volcanoes in the background to Antigua...

 

Traditional dances on the streets on a Sunday night....

 

A gorgeous Mama in the market making her tortillas and wearing her embroidered guipil (blouse) which she embroidered herself...

 Lago de Atitlan, the Lake where we have been staying for two weeks, a few hours from Antigua, in the hioghlands of Guatemala...stunning!

 Waterfalls with friends!

 The transport to get to other towns around the lake...

 The gorgeous view from the balcony where we are camping!!

 Chichicastango markets! amazing!!

 Tortillas made from blue corn!

 Trying on some wares!

 Too many to choose from! Second hand blouses....all hand embroidered by their previous owners with tradtitional patterns that show which region of Guatemala you live in!

 Giovanni loving hanging out with other Italian travellers!

 Happy with my purchases! It was worth the very windy three hour drive that made me feel extremely sick!

 Fun transport with friends travelling in vans...

 And their pets!

 A visit to San Juan...another lake town...

 Too gorgeous!! This 85 year old man sitting on the corner in his traditional and very funky clothes!!

 Tuk tuks from Thailand are now used here and are a cheap transport option...on our way to climb a volcano, which we didn¨t end up finding the path for!!

 Street murals...

 The colourful thread used for embroidery...

 A tradtional way to dye cotton with plants and wood!

Giovanni looking very funky in his jacket made from tradtional hand woven cloth!

 Instead of bags, traditionally just a piece of cloth is tied around the goods one buys from the markets...

 A very beautiful old couple in matching traditional fabrics!

 Not a bad place to camp!!!

 The weather has been stunning here...dry and hot during the day with a cold night air!

We are now heading off to a Rainbow Gathering here in Guatemala so I will be out of touch for possible two weeks! Lots of love to all
Jess and Giovanni!