Our last weekend break consisted of two little day trips, the first of which was a visit to Fuentes Georginas, very hot hot-springs with supposedly health-giving properties in a picturesque tropical setting. We didn't spend much time in the water (it was simply too hot to stay inside for more than five minutes at a time) but nonetheless arrived back in Xela really relaxed.
The second one - Sunday - was a journey to the famous (and therefore very touristy) indigenous market town of Chichicastenango, in the Quiché area. Thursday and Sunday are market days, and the village, chaotic but full with beautiful textiles and artesanía, gets as colourful as any village could possibly get. Incense is burnt in front of the simple but beautiful 16th-century church, giving the tiny square in front of it a mystical atmosphere. It was in this mystical atmosphere that one of those "how small is the world?"-experiences happened: Tere bumped into Belen Calzadilla's (a friend from Oviedo) family: her brother Alfonso, who is living in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Mari Carmen, their mother.
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