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We
arrived in the early morning and the only arrangement we had on arrival
was for
a transport to take us to Antigua. We
had the driver drop us at a place we had stayed at on the last trip. They were full so we walked down the street
and stopped at another hotel with our packs for breakfast.
This first
picture was the view from our
breakfast table. The desk at this hotel
watched our bags for us while we wandered around Antigua and found a
place we
liked and that had a room available.
After checking in to our room we wandered
down to the market on the west end of town.
That is where the next 11 pictures are from.
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The
next three pictures are from the roof across the court yard where we
ate our
first breakfast in town. During breakfast
we had seen the stairs leading up to the roof and decided to go back
and check
them out. The fourth shot is looking
south down the street just outside our hotel.
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The
next day we went to an organic macadamia nut tree finca (farm). This farm has a method of selecting seedlings
so that the resulting tree will produce 80 to 100 pounds of nuts per
year. The trees naturally resist all bugs
and
blights and grow well in almost all areas of central and South America.
They are a great carbon sink, much less
labor
intensive than coffee, and fetch almost four times the money / acre
over coffee. They had a most unusual
bathroom as you can
see and Moriah had a blast playing with the nut sorting machine.
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Here is a video clip of the sorting
machine in action.MOV01292.MPG
They
have a small store that sells a verity of macadamia nut products and
the finca
has, I think they said over 20 verities of trees with all different
colors of
blossoms, a variety of leaf shapes and nut clustering characteristics. They have an amazing oil that they produce
from the nuts that worked wonders on healing the poison Oak that I was
suffering from at that point. Susan
also works just two or three drops in to her hear after washing and it
makes a
great conditioner and is totally absorbed by both the skin and hear.
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When it was time to go home we asked Moriah what she thought about the
macadamia finca. MOV01298.MPG
We
hit the market again on the way back and chatted with a family that had
a
little girl around the same age as Moriah.
The fish eye lens shot is just out side our room where Moriah
worked on
homework and played when she was not hanging out in the little nook in
our
room.
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.The
next morning we got up early to head to Panajachel and I got this great
shot of
the volcano as we look south leaving our hotel. Pictures of
Panajachel->