A simple one day trip around the back of the volcano, a glorious sunrise over the lake, turn off before Santiago, take the old Tzutujil escape route to San Pedro Cumatz, this is the road a two day walk that was used by the populace to escape rubella or measles in the 1940's, highly contagious they abandoned the sick and terminally ill in the old San Pedro on the lake shore and headed into the mountains, onto the "costa" where a new settlement was colonised, here they still speak Tzutujil and wear the same traje, before arriving in the town we pass through vast rubber plantations, where we can see the latex extraction process, breakfast in Chicacao on chilli's rellenos (stuffed red peppers), as the day warms up, a paddle in a crystal clear mountain river, into the back of the truck for a slow return to San Pedro, lunch a picnic overlooking the Pacific Slope or "tipico" in Cocales, back in time for sundowners in The Buddha........
leave at 5.00am to catch the sunrise over the lake and volcano's....
The Dirt road around the back of Volcan San Pedro
passing through the massive rubber plantations
latex being extracted from a rubber tree
the Pacific Slope disappearing below us
contemplating a dip in the river outside Mazatenango
and back to the lake late afternoon
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