Calimax at Lencho's

30.03.2013, Chimaltenango

This is the story of one man, that without almost knowing us, opened the doors of his amazing house to us, and led to the best friendship ever. WE LOVE YOU LENCHO!!

Second storey of Lencho's house

Lencho, a good friend of our beloved Kumiko, felt to the magic potion of Panoramix (Asterix and Obelix) when he was a child, giving him a non-stop source of energy and vitality.

Lenchito has introduced us to beautiful Guatemalan people, who has becomed like a family.

Juanito, Diego, Lena, Lencho, Dimitris, me and the tekila bottle  from Mexicooo

Lencho, Kumi, Lena, me, Dimitris, David, Isabel, Juanito and Diego

Lencho is the most genuine man, happy, positive, generous, with so big heart that cannot fit in his chest! so he shares it with other people.

Together wirth Lencho live Juan, a never ending source of sarcastic jokes, and Lena, from whom we have larnt so much. Specially about all those weird veggies we see in the market and we didn't know how to cook, she also gave us worms to eat! She is all made of love and we have shared very nice moments with her. 

And we cannot forget the king of the house, Skokie! the most smart dog in Guatemala, who doesn't like the motorbikes because police also rides them :p

We have had a lot of fun at Lencho house, we have feel it as our house and it has been very hard to to leave from there! Actually we have been there for three weeks :p

But we will meet again, in America or in Europe, for sure!! Our house will always be open for you

Mixco viejo, a maya city, and the small stairs

With Lena

Picnic at Mixco viejo

Baking pizza and banana cake for Valentina's 7th birthday!

Dinner at El Tejar, followed by wild animal party...! 

The second community

Friday 08.02

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!!