I changed hotels yesterday to a room on the lake front. It is the only room on the third floor of Hostel Casa Elena. It is a simple concrete block construction that would not pass a building code inspection in the USA. There are no hand rails as you pass from floor to floor on open stair wells. Watch your step! Electric wires are wrapped around varies pieces of re-bar sticking out of the walls and roof. It looks like they stopped building half way through construction. I am told that so long as the building is under construction the taxes are lower. 90 % of Central America is still under construction. Has been and will be forever. This building must be 80 years old. My room has large windows on two side with some of the best views of this end of Lake Attilan. The lake sits in a giant caldron of an ancient volcano. I would think the lake is about 15 miles long and 7 miles wide. The Volcano blew up the last time 70,000 years ago. Last night, my first night here, I stood on my terrace and looked out to a giant black void that is the lake. I could see light faintly on the distant shore of Mayan Indian village. Behind the village is a steep mountain side that raises 4-5,000 feet that forms the rim of the Volcano. Above the rim was as many stars as anyone has ever seen. I laid in bed this morning watching the lake and the surrounding mountains change from dark shadows to a multitude of greens and yellows and browns. The flower in the trees outside my window claimed their rights to be brilliant red and yellow hibiscus. As the lake changed from a dark void stretching toward the distant mountain it took on its beautiful deep cobalt blue. Want a way to wake up. Good morning world
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 03:53:57 +0000
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