The Other World

Yoga Centre

You've seen the shanty town world. This is a yoga centre in the other world. Hotel San Lucas is high on a hill top that looks down on pastures. It's tranquil and clean and only a few minutes from the more common life around here.

a pasture below

 

my favourite flower

making corn flour

an old wheel on the hotel property

Un Sapo. a frog - side view

 

 

a frog -- front view

 

Londin, my guide

There's an area on the narrow path leading to the hotel called Los Sapos. The Frogs. Frogs were fertility symbols for the Maya. If you look closely at the side view, you'll see a frog foot and leg. I suppose they haven't been restored because they're in an isolated area.

Londin is a very ambitious Mayan. For three years he taught children painting, drama and sculpture. Four years ago, he won a $1000 contest to rid his home district of garbage. This meant getting even his mother to cooperate. That was a challenge. Londin is a true leader and wants to improve living conditions here in Copan -- reduce narco trafficking and corruption and improve infrastructure.

Left leaning people here are totally fed up with the current rightist government. The former left leaning government built schools, hired teachers, provided school supplies and a meal program so kids could be alert in class. Medical care was improved.

That assistance is gone now. Governments are elected for a four year term and if you are of that political stripe, you'll get a government job -- a better paid job than one in the private sector. Otherwise you will wait until your political stripe gets in.

the road back home

In town, the roads are like the Appian Way, the ancient Roman road in Italy. Outside of town, the roads that lead into the mountains are like this one. The photo doesn't do the ruts justice. They remind me of logging roads in Quebec. The three-wheeled mosquitos, as I've been calling them, are very powerful. But the ride is hair raising.

Saludos

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