We hiked an hour+ from the area around Volcán Pacaya (Guatemala) through trees, rocks, and slippery dirt to reach the eXtreme base of Volcàn Pacaya. If you think of it all in terms of risks and dangers, the volcano hasn´t had a decent eruption since 2000, but every so often a tourist gets hurt from doing stupid stuff with the lava like roasting marshmallows (which we actually witnessed. stupids.) or maybe they try to swim or who know.
It was a strange sensation near that massive slow moving mound of lava. It emited ultra hot heat waves that would gush towards us, and that would be followed by a super strong cold wind. All the while it smelled like my Easy Bake Oven. You read that right. Something about the chemical particles emitted from the slowly flowing lava brought me back to those smells from baking brownies in my easy bake oven, circa 1989. Visual:
Now that you have a feel for it, here´s a video:
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