No school on Friday!

Instead of school today we had an excursion to the town of Almolonga which is an agricultural town 6 km from Xela. We had been through it a couple of times on the bus on the way to Zunil but hadn’t stopped there. The town was a hive of activity centred around the church and marketplace. There were huge piles of vegetables for sale which were grown in the fields around the town.



We had a walk around and then headed downhill towards “Los Banos” which are more hot springs feeding bath-houses. It was a half hour walk through green fields to get there where we hired a couple of rooms at one of the many establishments. (There were 8 of us in the group, 4 students and 4 teachers.)






The rooms were quite large with a big concrete tub recessed in the floor with a hot and cold tap. The water was very hot and we had to add quite a bit of cold to the tub to make it bearable. It was very relaxing in the tub and supposedly the water has health benefits being high in Sulfur. We spent an hour or so soaking and took the bus back to Xela.