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Guate<br />My single day in Guate (abr. Of Guatemala city) was enough for realizing, that it justly gained its bad reputation as a fucking dangerous city: All the groceries are closed by iron doors, and the owner serves you via a little window with SORAGIM; stores, which sell valuables, have private gunman standing at the entrance; and by night you here explosions and alarm.

Wild Orchid: Additional mails & pictures from Guatemala

Itamar Cohen
2006-02-26 14:03:29

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Guate
My single day in Guate (abr. Of Guatemala city) was enough for realizing, that it justly gained its bad reputation as a fucking dangerous city: All the groceries are closed by iron doors, and the owner serves you via a little window with SORAGIM; stores, which sell valuables, have private gunman standing at the entrance; and by night you here explosions and alarm.

As I knew all of that in advance, I chose an hotel just near the airport, and tried not to wander around too much. And thus, ironically, after being used to wake up by the voice of the birds in my brother’s place in New-York, now I had to wake up from the noise of a Boeing 747, taking off just 10 meters above my head.

Orchid
The guidebook tells about a garden in this town, which is “a must to all the orchid-lovers”. Well, I had (and still don’t have) any idea what is orchid, but, from the context I understood that this is a kind of flower. Being a totally ignorant in flowers’ names, I understood that there is no idea in trying to look in the dictionary for that word. So, I just came to that place, to
see what are these orchids anyway.

Well, this place was really a little heaven (though I would have preferred my heaven to have a bit less steep uphills). U should have seen my bike covered by orchids all around.

orchid is sachlav
And in heaven there are 72 virgins
Guy

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