At my work, The Resort at Pelican Hill, I had the chance to become close with one of the stewards that often works with me. His name is Victor and he is a 28 year old male living in California but originally came from Guatemala. Victor is a happy person who loves to tell stories and we got to talking about school one day. I had mentioned that I was doing a blog about Guatemala and his face lit up as i said it. He began showing me pictures of his hometown and i got a little insight into what a rural town in Guatemala looked like. Without any prompt he began telling me about what it was like to live there, and kept going on and on about how beautiful it was there. And i couldn't agree with him more, the pictures he showed me were of rolling green mountains with small 'houses' dotting the landscape. I put houses in quotation marks because he did mention his area was relatively poor, so our definition of small 'houses' may not be an accurate portrayal.
He also mentioned now it is safer to travel to Guatemala because there is no longer fighting going on. But the places where it was safer was near the resorts and hotels that are popping up in places. He mentioned that most of the nicer places were located by these resorts because the government wants to attract tourists and so they clean up the beaches by the tourism areas and are not too good at cleaning up other beaches where the locals live.
Here are some picture Victor showed me of his Guatemala.
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