An Analysis Of Heaven's Doors In Guatemala

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Heaven's doors is a place localized in the highest place of Guatemala, this place is characterized by its great landscape and its very cold climate. Heaven´s doors is at a height of 4000 meters above sea level conformed by a Guatemalan pine (Abies guatemalensis) forest (Soto, 2001). In the summer this place is very visited by many tourists from different countries because is when they can see a great landscape.
There are two ways to get there, the firs are through a dirt road in bad conditions where only 4x4 cars and motorcycles can transit, usually the people use the first option when they only go one day to this place. The second way is to do a two-day hike through mountainous places where you can observe amazing landscapes like a lake, volcanoes,

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