Today our appointment was early and worked perfect.. 8 o´clock in a 4x4 pick-up car, with me outside on the trank of the car to visit our second community with Kumi. The travelling time was much more and taking into account that the road was really bad, the bumps on my ass was a fact!!
The community was much bigger than the previous one, inhabiting around 900+ people. The family of Don Anastasio that we visited was maybe the bigger that I ever met, as except him and his wife they had also 17 children...!! Unfortunately we met ONLY the 8 of them! The scenario was set in a mountainous area close to a forest and Don Anastasio´s "garden" was inhabiting the whole hillside.
He was pretty explanatory and it is a pity that we didn´t record his knowledge as we thought that we would come back...
He and his family treated us with so respect and gave us to try his medicine that according to him can heal every aliment that he encounters. Indeed it was so powerful and as we tasted it, we woke up and stand still with eyes wide open immediately! When we asked him the synthesis of it, he told us that contained over 40 different herbs from his garden! Astonishing! And when Nere suffered after a while with urine infection, he reliefed her with a herbal tea from his garden! They offered us a tasty lunch with yuca, peanuts and tomato sauce (all from the garden) and believe me it was more delicious, fullfilling and nutritious than you can imagine!! Ah and for the end , we drunk the super sweet-sour sugar cane juice that we made our own!!
They also accepted us to leave with them, btu we still have to see one more community to decide..
In the end of our day there, we took Don Anastasio, and his 8 children and went for a tour at the Maya ruins lying next to that community. The ruins of Mixoc Viejo..
The photos are speaking on their own!!
Dear Nere&Dimitri,
ReplyDeletei am a regular reader of your wonderful blog and i follow you for many years, since you started back in 1895. Internet connections were slower back then and my vision was better as well. Now, as i am getting older and the internet gets faster, i have a terrible problem in recognizing the beautiful white calligraphic letters you use together with you shiny colorful youaremysunshiny background. I really think that if i keep on reading it like that, my sight will soon be gone and when you finally come back from your journey i will only be able to hear your colors but never see them. Thus, as one of the oldest fans of this blog, i kindly request you to do something with this font.
Sincerely yours,
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I agree... We have the same problem Jorge...
ReplyDeleteBut it loookss sooo nicee....!!
ANyways! We would proceed your request immediatelly...!
Lots of love our friend