Revue Magazine 2010-11 (November)

antigua » Dining
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Live Music
every Sunday
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3a calle oriente #21, La Antigua Tel: 7832-6579 available
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5a av.sur #2
El Rosario
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move would be to go out in search of
whatever had been making the sound.
Suddenly, as the first beams of the sun began
to touch the canopy—a spectacular sight!
Without any warning a form, a bolt of
shimmering emerald green, shot vertically
up from the forest. It was a large male
quetzal spiraling upward with long tail
feathers streaming behind. As he continued
his skyward flight he made a loud, raucous
cry: WAKA WAKA WAKA WAKA.
He continued swimming up through the air
until he was several hundred yards above the
forest, after which he dove, with wings held
close to his body, streaking into the canopy
on the other side of the valley.
Then another quetzal shot up out of the
trees in vertical flight. Over and over
again this expression of sheer exuberance,
joy and freedom was repeated.
I could hear my heart pounding in my
chest. This was nothing like I had ever seen
or read about. Not just the amazing display
flight, but the loud, almost macaw-like cry
that the quetzal had made.
Then another quetzal shot up out of the
trees in vertical flight. Over and over again
this expression of sheer exuberance, joy
and freedom was repeated. It occurred to
me that no other creature I had ever seen
so embodied the symbol of the phoenix of
Egyptian mythology; rising immortal from
out of the ashes of destruction.
Rosendo came down to where we were
standing. “Li Kukul,” he said smiling and
pointing to the forest below. We nodded!
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