The businessman used hot lava and offers fresh pizza

The businessman used hot lava and offers fresh pizza at the Pacaya volcano. "A lot of people come here to taste pizza prepared on the volcano," Garcia told AFP. In his impromptu kitchen, he spreads the dough on a metal plate capable of withstanding a temperature of up to 1000 degrees Celsius, smears it with tomato sauce and places it with a generous portion of pieces of meat and cheese. In protective clothing, he then places a plate of pizza on the lava. "It's done, we'll just let the cheese melt a little more," he says ten minutes later. "That pizza looks great!" Confirms one of the tourists whose appetite was encouraged by the ascent to the Pacaya volcano, which lies just 25 kilometers south of the Guatemalan capital. García started experimenting with baking pizza on the volcano in 2013, when he used small volcanic caverns between the stones. "At first I didn't sell much pizza," he says today, as his fame spreads through social media. In recent weeks, as Pacaya regularly spews molten rock, he began to bake pizza directly on flowing lava, the tongues of which approached populated areas in places. It is a potentially risky venture with regard to the volcanic ash columns that the volcano throws to the sky, but it works perfectly as a tourist attraction. "Having pizza baked on coals from the volcano is unreal and unique in the world," said tourist Felipe Aldana. "It's an incredible thought to eat something cooked on lava. This is something you can only experience here in Guatemala, ”says Dutch visitor Kelt Van Meurs.