Revue Magazine 2010-11 (November)

We continued to slog up the muddy trail until we came to a clearing where there
stood a little thatched-roof cottage out of which arose a plume of blue smoke.
Rosendo Chun’s place!
Resplendent Quetzal cont. from page 18
CHUN’S PLACE AT LAST
On the other side of the Motagua
Valley a series of switchbacks took us
up into the mountains of Verapaz.
Gradually, the sweltering desert gave way
to pine forest and then a cool evergreen
broad-leaf forest. An hour later we stopped
in the little town of Tactic and had lunch
at a restaurant called Comedor Bombil Pec,
where a beautiful young Mayan girl served
us bowls of the regional specialty Kak’ik, a
rich turkey and chile stew accompanied by
fresh roasted corn tamalitos.
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After a short siesta we headed out in our Jeep
down a badly rutted track, which led us into
the Polochic Valley along the rushing river.
Down and down we went. After hours of
constant pounding we arrived at the village
of Tamahú, on the floor of the valley. Here
we took a right turn onto an even more
rustic roadway that led up into the coffee
plantations. It was hot and steamy. The
vegetation was very lush with many palms
and a profusion of epiphytes.
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