"Pacaya"

"07/07/2010"

The pattern continues as we left at 6am for another excitement, a volcano hike of Pacaya, which erupted a month before we arrived in Central America!
In the villages approaching Pacaya, you could see the damage that had been done as a result and how much ash and rock had been deposited from the eruption. It had spread for miles! Fingers crossed for no eruption while we're here.

Arriving at the volcano we were greeted by a mist of cloud looming over cooling molten rock. In the background, Pacaya loomed large, it was sheer awesomeness.

The hike was more like a walk (I'm glad we opted for this one - I've heard other options were bad) and took us to see recent lava flows. We didn't actually see any flowing lava, but the rock cooling was very recent and in the distance you could see molten lava about to form a new flow.

The volcano was just a wonderful experience, showing beauty and awe.
In the afternoon we visited the Rainbow Cafe for an amazing vegetarian meal and witnessed Spain defeating the Germans. YAY!!! :)