This is one of the museums in Santo Domingo. They did an amazing job of setting modern architecture into ruins. In this one, I appreciated the building much more than the religious artifacts.
Below is what you see when you walk into the ruin/museum area of Santo Domingo. It is beautifully well kept.
Part of the crypt, where the bodies of priests and monks and other religious folk were interned. One the left, you can see the reflection of glass - there are actual human bones in that one.
This was my favorite museum - the one that housed really old stuff next to really new stuff. In the case on the left, the object to the far right is this amazing class cobra with a big diamond in its mouth. The owl on the right was pretty incredible as well.
More of outside at Santo Domingo.
This is the main church in Chichicastenango. The women outside are selling flower petals, which arranged in specific ways with candles inside the church are prayers for different things. As you can see, there was about a million jillion people there that day.
The market at Chichicastenango.
Textiles for sale outside a really beautiful hotel.
So did you buy anything???
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ReplyDeleteThe photo of the main church at chichi is divine. you're a talent
ReplyDeleteronald looks unenthused.
perhaps a shorter skirt from the market?
I'm so happy you got to see some ruins so I can live vicariously through your memory. Do you remember the dinosaur footprint we saw? Do you remember the real dinosaurs you saw on your other road trip? Wasn't that something about Jesus?
I like how you say "real dinosaurs" as if being full-sized yet plastic makes something real. And yes, those were Jesus loving, creation ridiculing dinosaurs! I even went in one and that little tv nun was on mumbling about something!
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