Maya Music

     This Cachikel Maya marimba band plays on the streets of Antigua Guatemala, the colonial capital of Guatemala.

     I don’t know if the marimba originates in Guatemala, or elsewhere, but the Maya have “made it their own”. The sound of the marimba simply makes me smile.

Maya woman from Santiago Atitlan

— from diurno

This Maya woman in Santiago Atitlan is selling her weavings to the tourists who come to Lake Atitlan, Guatemala.