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Sunday Feb 11, 2018 #
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Guatemala trip day 1
We stayed in a world heritage site town of Antigua, the old Colonial capital before it got hit with volcanoes and earthquakes. Lots of huge ruins of churches beside tidy haciendas and cobblestone streets with cafes, surrounded by volcanic mountains.
Bus ride took us through Guat. City, which is a bit scruffy and smoggy.
Very varied terrain on a good highway as we dropped from the mountains, through an area where they were clearing a big rockslide.
Local Chicken Bus
Garbage-truck-surfing.
We came down to the coconut and banana altitudes, with thick jungle canopy. It flattened out before the coast into farmland, and we passed huge rubber plantations.
We got to the river, transferred a ton of supplies, generators and compressors to a cargo boat, then had a late lunch before a 50 min trip by fast water taxi across the Rio.
Entire clinic in a pile.
The Rio widens out in places to the size of lake Simcoe, but we finally went up a jungle backwater to Ak Temanit and our cabins.
Simple bunk beds with a picnic shelter and a toilet/shower block.
Mosquito nets mandatory in malaria country.
Quick departure for the clinic, where we set up the little houseboat as the sun set.
Tim Lee, who started Health Outreach 14 years ago.
My fiddling talents were useful even though I’m a newbie to this mission. Nobody else had headlamps for setup, so my lights were handy when the generator died. Looks like my operatory is a wooden chair on the deck. Best view in the house! Beth and I got it sorted. Space is tight, and if I back up I’ll be swimming.
Quite a decent grilled fish for dinner, then a hike in the dark back to the cabins for a cerveza and a shower before setting up my mosquito net for bed.
We stayed in a world heritage site town of Antigua, the old Colonial capital before it got hit with volcanoes and earthquakes. Lots of huge ruins of churches beside tidy haciendas and cobblestone streets with cafes, surrounded by volcanic mountains.
Bus ride took us through Guat. City, which is a bit scruffy and smoggy.
Very varied terrain on a good highway as we dropped from the mountains, through an area where they were clearing a big rockslide.
Local Chicken Bus
Garbage-truck-surfing.
We came down to the coconut and banana altitudes, with thick jungle canopy. It flattened out before the coast into farmland, and we passed huge rubber plantations.
We got to the river, transferred a ton of supplies, generators and compressors to a cargo boat, then had a late lunch before a 50 min trip by fast water taxi across the Rio.
Entire clinic in a pile.
The Rio widens out in places to the size of lake Simcoe, but we finally went up a jungle backwater to Ak Temanit and our cabins.
Simple bunk beds with a picnic shelter and a toilet/shower block.
Mosquito nets mandatory in malaria country.
Quick departure for the clinic, where we set up the little houseboat as the sun set.
Tim Lee, who started Health Outreach 14 years ago.
My fiddling talents were useful even though I’m a newbie to this mission. Nobody else had headlamps for setup, so my lights were handy when the generator died. Looks like my operatory is a wooden chair on the deck. Best view in the house! Beth and I got it sorted. Space is tight, and if I back up I’ll be swimming.
Quite a decent grilled fish for dinner, then a hike in the dark back to the cabins for a cerveza and a shower before setting up my mosquito net for bed.