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When I told my teacher, that I was going to hike Pacaya, she told me that she doesn't have a clue why all the students like to do it - they have to be crazy. Why ? Keep reading, and you will see:
The first 1 1/2 hours were a nice hike up, and you could always see and hear the Vulcan Pacaya spitting Lava (yes, it was active). I never knew how far we would go up. At about half way our Guide told us that we will go up right to the top. I couldn't believe it - there was all this hot lava coming out !!! So the guide kept saying 'vamos' (lets go), and we followed him. The last part was really steep and only small and light lava rocks. Going up was really difficult, cos you kept slipping backwards. But finally we made it all and it was worth the trouble. There was the great view to the pacific, Guatemala City and some other Vulcano's - and of course Pacaya itself. We went about 50m from the erupting crater, and you could feel the heat at the bottom of your shoes, you had to keep stepping from one foot to the other so it wouldn't get too hot. I have to say this was one of the most impressing things I have seen on the whole trip: to stand 50m away from a crater of about 1.5m diameter spitting lava up to 20-50m. We were really lucky with the weather and the wind blowing in the right direction, so we could go that close.
When we went down and I saw the lava coming out, I couldn't believe that I was standing that close to it.
2 weeks later the Vulcan erupted for real, and you can't see what I saw anymore. But maybe it should make you think of the following: I was a bit worried about the security at the beginning, but I was told (the same with the Vulcan Arenal in Costa Rica), that when a Vulcano erupts regularly, all the pressure gets released and no big eruption will happen. But it seems nature acts sometimes a bit different !
Autor/in: Sonja Gaurek
Dieser Artikel stammt nicht aus den Archiven der Salzburger Nachrichten, sondern wurde von einem Leser zur Veröffentlichung eingesandt. Wiewohl dieser Artikel vor seiner Veröffentlichung auf seinen Inhalt geprüft wurde, stellt er doch die Meinung des Autors/der Autorin dar und in keinster Weise die Meinung der Salzburger Nachrichten.
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