This pagoda of turtles was in the yard of the hotel we stayed in. It was reasonably good. Ian and I had a two room suite on the second floor. Both rooms had tatami mats on the floor. As I said, I went to sleep almost immediately after the evening meal but Ian stayed up for a while in the second room.
Our hotel was the white building on the far left. We were still in the mountains, although we had descended a long way from the summit, so the farm land was all terraced.
At first the road was flat and easy to walk. The farms along the roadside were quite pleasant and I enjoyed the walk.
We entered another hilly area and the Henro Trail left the road and descended a steep hillside into an orchard of plum trees, some of which were in full bloom - beautiful.
After passing through the orchard we entered the woods again. This area was terraced but the farms and people were long gone. I read something at the hotel that indicated that the area had been populated, and isolated, hundreds of years ago. The people had worked hard to construct flat areas on which to farm and build houses. It was really eerie to walk through the remains of a long gone civilization. The Central Americans must feel the same when they walk through the Mayan ruins.
This pagoda of turtles was in the yard of the hotel we stayed in. It was reasonably good. Ian and I had a two room suite on the second floor. Both rooms had tatami mats on the floor. As I said, I went to sleep almost immediately after the evening meal but Ian stayed up for a while in the second room.
Our hotel was the white building on the far left. We were still in the mountains, although we had descended a long way from the summit, so the farm land was all terraced.
At first the road was flat and easy to walk. The farms along the roadside were quite pleasant and I enjoyed the walk.
We entered another hilly area and the Henro Trail left the road and descended a steep hillside into an orchard of plum trees, some of which were in full bloom - beautiful.
After passing through the orchard we entered the woods again. This area was terraced but the farms and people were long gone. I read something at the hotel that indicated that the area had been populated, and isolated, hundreds of years ago. The people had worked hard to construct flat areas on which to farm and build houses. It was really eerie to walk through the remains of a long gone civilization. The Central Americans must feel the same when they walk through the Mayan ruins.
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