What a Great Evening

The 5 of us spent the evening in a place called Fuentes Gorginas last night. The area is known for their natural hotsprings. It was quite lovely; and we had the eveing to ourselves. At around 12 midnight, all the lights around the place turned off. And, there we were, surrounded by total darkness; the only company, our voices and the sounds of the deep jungle.

When we arrived at the spring, I decided it would be a good idea to head back into town and get some grocieries. This turned to being an innocently indiotic idea. By the time I and a guy named Andrew arrived into a town with food, everything was just about closed and it was incredibly dark. Buses and Taxis don´t frequent the hot spring, especially at night, and after our purchase of sundries, I ended up having to hail a truck off the street and pay him to take the two of us back to the spring.

The whole experience was splendid and on the return trip to the spring, we were presented with a spectacular view of the valley with the sun setting in the way off distance. We also helped out a local family (the 50q we paid for the ride is 5q more then the average Guatemalan makes in a day).

It looks as though I will stay here (Xela) for about a week. I´ll then head... well, I´m not quite sure.