February 2008
 We climbed up Volcano Pacaya with friends.  Here are some photos ... click to see larger photos

Pacaya Volcano
Click to see several lava flows on the bigger photo.  This a view from our pic-nic lunch site		 Pacaya has been busy for several months now, with a lot of lava flowing
Expedition with our friends Sandra and Matt, with with ski poles to help ... the first ever use of our ski equipment in Guatemala

It's really hot this close to the lava flow on Pacaya, click for a larger image ...

Pacaya Volcano, Guatemala, February 2008.   The Volcano is on the list of candidates for the "7 Natural Wonders of the World", click on the link.


Our friend Enrique is roasting mashmallows in the lava ... and burning his face, that close to the molet rock
Enrique roasting marshmallows in the lava
A tour guide, roasting marshmallows, has his whole stick go up in flames
 
Lava field on Pacaya
Roasting on Pacaya ... 
 Lava flows quite rapidly ... in the half-hour we stayed to watch it, it moved over the area where we started taking photos 
Lava flows on the Pacaya Volcano		 A river of Lava on Pacaya, one of many ... 
For a detailed description of Volcano Pacaya, click here 
Pacaya volcano 
Enrique, the guide, with the cone of Pacaya.		 The top of Pacaya, currently not accessible because of volcanic activity ... 
Pacaya is now so active that people are not allowed to the crater of the volcano.
Pacaya volcano on a trip in October 2004
Below, in an October 2004 photo from the crater, you see the lava field, where we took the 2008 photos, and the lush green pasture above it, from which we took the 2008 pic-nic photos of the active lava flows that are above.		 Pacaya volcano in November 2004 ... lava was not flowing and, in the same field, people used lava rocks to write their own names and messages
November 2004.  The lava field was quiet and people used lava rocks to write their names ... they could not do that today
Pacaya volcano in November 2004, going up on horseback with David
Tomas & David, going up Pacaya in November 2004

 Pacaya volcano crater in November 2004 ... bits of lava flying up stick to a cone in the crater that grows to 200 feet tall and then colapses on itself every few weeks and starts growing again
A huge cone in the crater of Pacaya, November 2004, with bits of lava and rocks flying up all the time

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