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Central America

EL SALVADOR | Friday, 30 March 2012 | Views [422]

Lago de Suchitoto, north of San Salvador is a man made lake which has been a reassuring example of intentional flooding being an environmental success. It's created a large amount of hydro- electric power for the surrounding villages and has created a more sustainable fishery for local people. It's beautiful too!

As many have before me, I sat in awe, looking down at the temples of Tical, a monumental city who housed some of the very first astonomers of the human species. The precison of the architecture, so that at some points the clapping of the hands mimiked the sound of the Quetzal, Guatemala's national bird, was quite frankly breathtaking.

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I love crafts. Not to buy them, but to admire them as a emblems of stories told over generations, or long- learned skills handed down from mother to daughter or father to son, using local (if at times unsustainable) resources.

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