San Antonio Palopo Lake Atitlan

Lake Atitlan , Western Highlands, Guatemala
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    Attraction Type:

    Town center/square/plaza

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  • 1

    A beautiful lake seen from a toilet seat

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    Two lane roads in Guatemala arent what they seem. Our minivan driver showed us this the hard way playing chicken with semis in his battered mobile. Its helpful that they use metric measurements as inches from death doesnt do the near-misses justice! We ...

  • 2

    you can never leave.....

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    In the past couple of days, we took advantage of the beautiful weather around the lake to tour some of the Maya villages. San Antonio Palopo has a fishing village character, Since there was no passenger boats, we hired our own. After lunch, we relaxed on ...

  • 3

    A Cloudy Visit to Beautiful Lake Atitlan

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    ... people still perform rituals to honor him.     After our visit to Santiago, we crosed the lake to the village of San Antonio Palopo, a small  Then, we got an even closer look at Mayan traditions during a hands-on weaving ...

  • 4

    fridays during lent in panajachel

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    ... looked quite beautiful.  we cannot send pictures from these computers, sorry.    today we are going to san antonio palopo, one of the 34 villages of this parish.  it is about 8  to 10 miles from panajachel.  we ...

  • 5

    Feb 17

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    ... hill....very steep climbing!  we walked around town then sat on our terrace and had dinner and watched the sun set over lake atitlan.  we had a guest at dinner...cristobal, the man that makes the ceramics for our fair trade sales.  what a ...

  • 6

    Stones

       Tecpán in the department, Chimaltenango with its indigenous people, is known as the "first capital of Guatemala". This claim is based on the fact that the first permanent Spanish military center of the nation was based here. It is a ...

  • 7

    Time to Really Travel

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    ... Catarina Palopo, the first town we would go through. An hour later we made it to our turn around point at San Antonio Palopo. We contemplated taking a boat back to Panajachel, but decided the workout would be worth it and ended up giving ...

  • 8

    Lago de Atitlan, Guatemala

    Lago de Atitlan, ...

  • 9

    Around the Lake

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    ... local market to grab something to eat before boarding the boat. The final destination of the boat cruise is a little village San Antonio Palopo.  At the boat, I could tell Liz was a little disappointed that we did not explore Santiago, ...

  • 10

    Chilling by Lake Atitlan

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    ... cover. Aha, we were baltic and a wee bit wet by the time we got across to the last village - San Antonio Palopo, after a mere 1.5 hours to cross the lake again! Getting a wee bit hacked off by wee kids shoving multicoloured bits of cloth in oor faces, ...