Wheelin' In Guatemala Pics .

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These pics are about 6 months old now but I thought I'd share . I went to Guatemala in Jan. and did a little wheelin' with some locals I met on another board . They planned a little wheelin' trip for me and we went up the backside of "Volcan Pacaya" , which is a volcano that errupts on a daily basis . It was pretty awesome , I had a Turbo Diesel 4x4 Mitsubishi rental (the Toyotas were all out lol) . It was myself and 9 other rigs . Here are the pics :

 

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This was our rental for 2 weeks . 2008 Mitsubishi Turbo Diesel 4WD :

 

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The black is all lava rock :

 

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This was towards the top , I don't remember what the elevation was but we were way up . You can see the clouds in some of these pics , that's not smog :

 

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This is as far as we made it , you really can't go up any further than this , these dudes were all packing some heat so they did a little target practice :

 

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Of course I had to try it too :

 

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We started heading back down at around 5 PM because it started getting dark and it had taken us about 6 hours to get up there with a couple of picture stops and a broken axle and a bent drag link . As we were heading back down the volcano started errupting , it was a bad ass sight , the pics look a little blurry because I took them with no flash . Otherwise you wouldn't be able to see the lava :

 

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The next day we were going to Antigua , Guatemala and we were looking at the same volcano from the road and I took the first picture . A couple minutes later it made an erruption (second picture) , it was awesome .

 

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Some random pics of some Toyotas I saw down there that I thought were really cool :

 

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And I swear there's is some really clean 1st , 2nd , and 3rd gen pick-ups all over down there . I think that's why they are getting so hard to find in the states .

 

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And I took this picture because I get calls at work all the time about how much weight a Toyota can hold . People wanting to know if it'll be cool to carry a dirt bike and some riding gear , LOL . This is what people use these trucks for down there .

 

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Even the Police uses 4WD Toyotas

 

[BGarcia88FJ62]

That place looks fantastic that was a trip of a life time. Great photo's thanks' for posting them .

 

[cruiserjunktion]

Very Cool Man!

 

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Thanks guys ! , yeah it was an awesome trip for sure . I had lots of fun and plan on going again if money allows it .

 

[blzrfn]

Looks like the Mitsubishi kept up pretty well! Great pictures!