El Quiche

Friday,February 9, 2007

After waiting for at least 30 min, I was able to get on a bus to the terminal. Upon reaching the bus terminal I found that i had to take another bus to get to the bus that would actually take me to Santa Cruz del Quiche. So about an hour and a half later i was on my way to Quiche. After another 3 hours, al ot of near fatal accidents, a whole lot of motion sickness, and plenty of dust in my face, I arrived in El Quiche.

I checked in to a hotel in the center of the city and went to find a place to eat. I found a small restaurante around the corner where i had a steak diner for Q18. The next day I woke up with the venders setting up there tables and goods at 430 in the morning. I went to the bus terminal and had a sweet roll and coffee at about 630 and then started on my walk to find the ruins of K'umarcaaj. It took me around 1.5 hours to find the ruins through the morning fog. They were located about 6km from my hotel. The ruins were basically a bunch of grass covered hills surrounding a slab of rock. On the outside of the hills there was a trail leading to a cave covered in black smoke. I walked into the cave but soon found it was extremely deep so i returned to the light before the spirits reached me, hahahah. After coming back into town i ate some breakfast for Q15, cheaaaaaap. I hopped on a bus to Chichi and walked around the market. After i walked up to the site of pascual abaj, the mayan king that turned to stone when the people went against him. I then walked back to town ate lunch and bought some brightly colored things. And back to Guatel.