{"id":428,"date":"2008-03-03T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=428"},"modified":"2008-03-03T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T16:59:00","slug":"day-tripping-to-rabina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2008\/03\/03\/day-tripping-to-rabina\/","title":{"rendered":"Day Tripping to Rabinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/rabinal1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>My buddy Shane decided to stop into Guatemala for 5 days on his way to Belize so I decided to take him and my family to Rabinal for the day yesterday. I had never been there before.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/rabinal2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Salam\u00e1 is on the way, so we stopped in and walked around the central park. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/rabinal5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>We got to shop around a book sale where we picked up some sweet deals (all in Spanish): <i>A Hundred Years of Solitude<\/i>, <i>Guatemalan Mayan Dress<\/i> cards (61 in total), <i>Guatemalan Cooking<\/i>, <i>Never Again<\/i> (about the Guatemalan Civil War), and <i>My Clinical Observations on the Lemon, Garlic, and Onion<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/rabinal3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>On our way from Salam\u00e1 to Rabinal (30 km), we were stopped by a roadblock put up by people who were upset by an incident between two bussing companies in San Miguel Chicaj.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/rabinal4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Because of inflating fuel prices, one company wants to increase fare prices while the other doesn&#8217;t. So one guy flipped another guy&#8217;s van over. With people inside (no one seriously hurt from what I was told). <\/p>\n<p>The delay was about 2.5 hours. We returned to Salam\u00e1 for lunch and eventually got through.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/rabinal6.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Rabinal is on the other side of a mountain from Salam\u00e1. The road is very windy (not air windy, lots of turns windy).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/rabinal7.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I visited with these two guys on the right in the central square. The told me about the peanut farms of Rabinal and how rich the soil is. I would have liked to have visited a peanut farm, but our traffic delay prohibited that. There are also some nice pools that we were thinking of swimming in too, but alas, it was not meant to be.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/rabinal8.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Then we visited the market where we bought some of the famous native pottery and some local fruits (grenadinas, coconuts and mangos).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/rabinal9.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I thought this skinny puppy was dead, but it was only sleeping. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/rabinal10.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>We stopped into a couple pottery factories and Edgar gave us a neat demo of the wheel and explained how their kiln works.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/photos\/blog4\/rabinal11.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Our trusty car got us there and back unscathed (except for a little nausea. . . ). <\/p>\n<p>thanks to Shane for photos 4, 8, 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My buddy Shane decided to stop into Guatemala for 5 days on his way to Belize so I decided to take him and my family to Rabinal for the day yesterday. I had never been there before. Salam\u00e1 is on the way, so we stopped in and walked around the central park. 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