Friday's market Lake Atitlan

... this trek. On Friday, we took a boat to Santiago Atitlan, in the southwest corner of Lago Atitlan, to check out the huge Friday-morning market. This village seems to be one of the more traditional villages in the area with virtually everyone dressed ...

Friday is market day in Sololá, a neighboring town. We took the chicken bus from Pana for 3 quetzales (less than 50 cents). There was only one other group of tourists on our bus and they were the only tourists we saw at the market. The market was ...

Our journey to Lake Atitlan wasn't the most pleasant with a packed van of young partiers headed towards the bohemian town of San Pedro la Laguna from Antigua. Guatemala is an incredibly mountainous country with many active volcanoes. While places may ...