Agriculture & Ecology in Tropical America is a study abroad course offered by The University of Georgia Departments of Horticulture and Crop & Soil Sciences. For the inaugural field trip, 8 students spent two weeks studying the diverse tropical agricultural systems found in Guatemala. Following is a photojournal of Guatemala and of this first trip. Click on each thumbnail for a larger photo and a map location.

Side trip to Tikal Stairs are steeper than they look Students on a temple pyramid
What goes up, must come down! Exploring a food-storage vault at Tikal Climbing up an unrestored temple
In the sugar cane Fuego volcano as seen from the south coast Tapping rubber
The local transportation arrangements Tea plantation Plucking (harvesting) tea leaves
In the tea factory Protection from the tropical sun Looking at kip palms under the cloud forest

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