Day Trip to Tenejapa

Sunday was scheduled to be a free day for the members of our group to explore San Cristobal or follow their own interests. One of the options was to travel south to Cuidad Tenejapa where a carnival was to take place. Vicki, a local English speaking guide, and a van were hired to escort us to the event. Our first stop was at the town weaver's shop where they demonstrated weaving done on a back strap loom. The traditional costumes were on display and the owner took great pride in dressing the tourists as locals. Darlene, the travel photographer in our group, took on the role of the female and Babu was recruited to fill the male role. The hat is unique and is worn only by the Major Domo, leader of the town.

Upon finishing with the weaver and the clothing we ventured into the main plaza, upper left, then walked around town taking pictures of the people and the food stalls. The locals were a little reluctant of being photographed, so care had to be taken not to offend. Below are random shots of the streets we walked. Vicki is drinking a cup of the local brew in the picture center bottom, and Darlene is trying some in the next picture.

Continued on the next Blog-----We found that the collage could not be enlarged in the original post so we opted to continue to the next post as it took too long to upload a correction. The reason for the difficulty was that we had included a movie in the collage not realizing that would create a problem.