Las Mujeres de las flores // Chichicastenango, Guatemala

Sunday is market day in Chichicastenango, a Mayan town in the mountains of central Guatemala. Rising above the bustling market chaos is the pristine white Iglesia de Santo Tomás, a 16th-Century Roman Catholic church. It sits on an ancient mayan temple platform––18 steps for each month of the Mayan Calendar. Women gracefully dance up and down the stairs, selling flowers like celestial beings handing out tickets to God. Petals cover the ground and burning incense mingles with spices and floral perfume. An otherworldly experience.