1000places > SAN ANTONIO PALOPO, GUATEMALA - Along the banks of Lake Atitlan, these young girls watched as we departed the village of San Antonio Palopo.
1000places > SAN ANTONIO PALOPO, GUATEMALA - This attractive young woman wears a huipíl, a blouse with the distinctive pattern of her village.
1000places > SAN ANTONIO PALOPO, GUATEMALA - Ever curious of passing tourists, a young child looks out from her house as we pass by.  Notice that underneath her sweatshirt she wears the traditional weave of her village.
1000places > SAN ANTONIO PALOPO, GUATEMALA - While many of the Maya textiles are the products of the traditional backstrap loom, a more mechanical loom is used for some of the weavings.  Here a young apprentice weaver perfects her weaving skills.
1000places > SAN ANTONIO PALOPO, GUATEMALA - The village is known for its exquisite weaving.  We climbed the hillside to a small mud-and-straw hut to watch this woman expertly work her traditional backloom.
1000places > SAN ANTONIO PALOPO, GUATEMALA  - This was one of the poorer villages we had seen.  But even though tattered, the young children's clothes displayed the distinctive pattern of the village.
1000places > LAKE ATITLAN, GUATEMALA - Soon the village of San Antonio Palopo came into sight, its sparkling white church squeezed into the side of a steep hillside.
SAN ANTONIO PALOPO, GUATEMALA - Along the banks of Lake Atitlan, these young girls watched as we departed the village of San Antonio Palopo.

1000places > SAN ANTONIO PALOPO, GUATEMALA - Along the banks of Lake Atitlan, these young girls watched as we departed the village of San Antonio Palopo.
SAN ANTONIO PALOPO, GUATEMALA - Along the banks of Lake Atitlan, these young girls watched as we departed the village of San Antonio Palopo.

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