April 26th trip to Mexco Viejo, More interesting ruins.

With fellow Senior Missionaries Elder and Hermana Bingham we traveled by car to the Mexco Viejo ruins about an hour and a half from Guatemala City.. These ruins are not as ancient as the Copan Ruins of Honduras. They have been restored to the original architecture as much as possible.

This is stair to a temple structure as was explained to us.

Cotton Tree that is very common here in Central America

Elder and Hermana Bingham sitting on top of the structure that suggested games were played.

 Elder Bingham

 A small town close by that on Saturdays had fresh vegetables, fruits and flowers. Women of the town wear 

their traditional dress every day year round.

Ruins of a game stadium as it was explained to us.

Hermana Bingham

There were school children playing on dirt that was on top of original structure. It was a school field day for them.

 The school children on their field day were really enjoying climbing on these stairs.

 Huge tree in the middle of the ruins city complex

Perspective of how big the tree is compared to human height

 A mother and child accompanying the school children on the field trip.

The market place is in a plaza and very busy with product and goods to purchase

Temple ruins

Elder Al and Elder Bingham scoping out the ruins

 More kids on top of ruins.  If its high kids will climb on it.

 Ruins from afar

Temple ruins we were told

 Women coming out of local Catholic Church in traditional dress.  We think a wedding took place here today.

 Several women dressed in Guatemalan traditional dress holding flowered ornamentation walking towards another building from the Church.

 Notice how small this woman is.

Temple ruin from afar

 This is a good perspective picture to show the size of this stadium to size of people. Al is in hat and yellow shirt.

Another side of stadium

 School children having a wonderful time climbing all over.

More pictures of school children on a field day

 Ruins in another part of the property

This was most intact of any other ruin structure.  Well maintained.

Good Picture of Al