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- by Roberto Rocha
- published from Guatemala
- on 2009.03.14
The sunset hike up the volcano
Santiaguito erupting right on schedule.
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The four-hour hike up Volcán Santa Maria starts at 1 am sharp. They tell you to bring a flashlight, but for much of the trail you don’t need it. The full moon exposes every rock, root and crevice.
Climbing a mountain at night is intensely film noir. The lush vegetation and earth [...]
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- by Roberto Rocha
- published from Guatemala
- on 2009.03.06
The volcano that created the world
They offer you a horse before you set off on the 2.8-kilometre, 1.5-hour hike up Volcano Pacaya. Most people decline, but the horses go up anyway.
“Taxi? Taxi?” the horsemen offer periodically, as if secretly mocking us: “Foolhardy humans! You think your pretty, well-maintained nature sidewalks prepared you for this?
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