San Marcos...Fesival of Conscienceness

This is the first weeked I arrived in San Marcos. I´d say about 3-4 weeks ago. There was a festival of conscienceness going on. I attended numerous workshops and learned an amazing amount of stuff. The topics ranged from yoga, to acupuncture, to green buildings and green living, to merdian lines in the body and techniques of tapping them to uplift your mood, to pickling vegetables, to making your own wine. Lots in other words...theres more I just can´t remember them all.

Making Mango wine!!!!!

Chopping up the Panela!!! this is dehydrated cane juice...the best kind of sugar!

Pictures for you mom! These are an herb garden I got a tour off. The plants where amazing here. I ended up taking a course about medicine plants and learning how to communicate with them...it was an extraordinary experience. But pictures of that are for another day. I´ve been over three hours in this cyber cafe and the guys keeps spraying cleaner all around me. After San Marcos I can´t hang anymore!!! haha

More of the herb garden...I can wait to get an apartment and start growing things.

And here is another shot...whee!!!!

This was the music on the second night. The band was amazing, just a bunch of musicians jamming together.

One of the paths in San Marcos. This is a picture of the Tienda del Arbol. or tree store in english haha.

I think you might like these pictures dad. This is building with bamboo.

The bamboo is place on that bit of rebar that sticks out in the middle of the picture. Cement is then pored in from the holes drilled that you can see on the left most bamboo pole.

The front of the building.

Heres one of the more interesting buildings in San Marcos. Its three pods built together. The yard was gorgeous too.

Adobe bricks drying in the sun. I looked at all this while on the ¨Green Building¨tour of San Marcos during the Festival of Conscienceness.

So i gues the other bamboo picture ended up down here haha. Heres a picture of the full building.

This building is a example of the cheapest way to build with adobe. The indigenous people have been using this technique for centuries. It last for about 15 years.

Another path in San Marcos. Its much less westernized and more jungle like than San Pedro.