Today, for my morning stroll, I went to the zoo. It's basically a park with about 10 cages or enclosures and a few animals in each. The zoo was actually a pretty sad sight as the cages were dismal and some animals a bit mangy. I noticed a big pile of trash, bottles, and cans building up right next to the chain link fence that enclosured some birds. There were exotic animals as well, like domestic rabbits, coyotes, and goats. I was actually impressed to see a male lion though in pretty decent shape.
Our afternoon consisted of going to Zuhil, seeing the catholic church in the center of town, a weaving workshop, and the ediface of San Simon. The shrine of San Simon had a plastic manequin wearing a cowboy hat, aviators, a bandana, gloves and having a feint resemblence to Michael Jackson. People were offering cigars, alcohol, and candy as gifts to the shrine. There were even some people who got to pour alcohol into his mouth. Apparently, the alcohol is collected inside the manequin, collected, and resold as a special kind of drink afterwards. The whole shrine was a bit weird.
After that, we went to some thermal baths and had a nice soak for about an hour in some naturally heated water from the volcano. It was very relaxing.
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