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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Hugs & teary goodbyes


Sharing a joke as we prepare to go to the supermaket


A community leader explains how they established the hot house to produce all year around & the difficulties of breaking into new markets


Incredibly well-behaved children under six enjoy the food


A father helps his little girl eat the fruit based sweet


Community women and children share the food they have learned to cook for a balanced diet in higienic conditions


World Vision Staff and Reymundo's parents watch the weaving with interest


A community women weaves with an adapted bike wheel


The School and Community leaders welcome us to present their projects with pride


Mario and Leoncio of World Vision with Reymundo (our sponsored child) and his parents.


The iguanas were around with the Maya (500 BC-800 AD) when felling the jungle for construction resulted in reduced waterfall, food crisis and war


At one of Palenque's Maya pyramids before we climbed to the top and the batteries ran out on the camera


Monday, September 20, 2010

The Red Queen was in charge of the Maya - here's her palace


Men in the bus clearing a tree on the road in pouring rain


Agua Azul when heavy rain turned the water brown


The rubbish bogged our boat in the canyon


Sumidero Canyon, Chiapas


A Ribeiro painting in wool


Aldo learns the art of wool refinement


Who's for worms and chilli with Mescel


Tule Tree, 55 feet wide and 2000 years old at Oxaca


Tomb 7 & Stones of the Dancers in Oxaca


Olmeca, Zapoteca and Mixteca ruins of Monte Albano, Oxaca


On the road to Oxaca


Pueblo


Santa Maria Tonantzintla temple decorated by Indigenous people


Aztec Sun Dial / Calendar


Care to sacrifice your heart and put it in this stone for the Gods?


Street vendors


A teacher demonstration to increase the commitment to education


The most beautiful post office


Aztec Ruins next to the cathedral


Uneven sinking of neighbouring doors at the Zocolo


Measuring the uneven sinking of the cathedral


Madonna of Guadalupe


The Zocolo


Mexico City Zocolo dressing up for the 200th Anniversary since Independence


WWII Memorial


Aldo making a fashion statement in front of the hotel where Martin Luther King stayed when he wrote his famous "I have a dream" speech.


China Town


Wshington on a hot summer's night


The White House on a Summer's Day


The Station with the flag, park, fountain and baroque builing representative of Washington


Window from which JFKennedy was shot


Reconstructed Washington after 9/11


Aldo enjoying a walk down Mulberry St with State Empire Building in the background


Aldo's favourite dish in Little Italy NY


Inside the museum- Wow! Look at those sculptures


Rooftop of National Art Museum overlooking Central Park


Surviving statue from Nagasaki with back part blown away