Contrasts

One of the concepts that has stuck in my mind as I have lived and travelled in Guatemala and now Nicaragua is that it is a land of extreme contrasts in almost everything:  hundreds of super skinny nursing dogs scrounge in street next to a few beloved pets, ancient Maya women with no shoes beg outside of Jade jewelery shops, tropical jungle rivers are gargabe dumps, SUVs with blackened windows drive past shack houses of dirt and sticks. Lots of it is difficult or degrading to capture on camera, but below are some examples.

Roadside vistas

Guatemala City

Cobblestones and confetti

Earth and sky

Marimba (traditional guatemala music) Concert

Guatemala City

Our host in traditional San Antonio Zamora

Our table side beggar in Monterrico

Sunday morning work

Childhoods

Lush

Not

Volcanoes: maize and geothermal energy plants

Colours

Fresh orange juice

Lava and life

Barbed wire jungles

Palms, cactii, and pines.

Parking lot for the pueblo bar