San Pedro La Laguna Bed and Breakfasts - Reviews and Rates

We arrived at lake Atitlan at the biggest town, Pana'. It looked nice and had loads of market stalls and stuff but we had heard that a smaller place just across the lake was a better place to stay. We caught a boat across which although the guy said it would take 20 minutes took an hour and 20 minutes, we sat at the front thinking we were in pri...

Tuesday February 12, 2008 Monday was a beautiful day here in San Pedro on Lake Atitlan. Brandy and I made breafast here at Hotel Peneleu (named for the owner Alberto Peneleu and his family). The meal preparation was a festive occasion surrounded by our new friends and neighbors. Aftera quick trek down to the local el mercado, we sliced fresh tom...

The last five days I spent in Guatemala were a mixture of serenity, thrill, and desperation. We hopped on a lancha across the lake to San Pedro and found a very cheap hotel down near the water (and when I say cheap, I mean less than $3.50 a night!) with a well-tended courtyard garden area. We got settled and immediately rented a couple kayaks to...

Where was I? Or, where were we, I should say... Day 3 of the trek started very, very early. We awoke at 4am, and hit the road at 4:30, so that we would be in the right spot for watching the sun rise over Lago Atitlan. We had to walk on the road, in the dark, which wasn´t a lot of fun, but compared to the 2 days previous, it felt like a walk in t...

One of my favorite pictures that I didn´t take was of Elena. Elena is the 6 year old daughter of the family I stayed with for 1.5 days. She immediately took to me, sitting up close and rattling off how to use the remote. She was the one reason I was sad to go. One day I was walking past her house and that of her cousins and she comes running up ...

hola once again amigos! soz for the brief interlude but i had an appointment with a baño! so, where had we got to? Sunday i collapsed onto my bed but various gods seemed to be comspiring against me and i still couldnt sleep! The sun was blazing thru the curtains and it was stiffling hot in my room, but i darent prop the door open in case i dozed...

After our getaway to Santa Cruz, we returned to San Pedro for our last week of Spanish classes at the Coopertiva Spanish School. Unfortunately, we were both struck with some funky illness and missed the first 2 days of classes as we lay in bed ill, with aching muscles and feverish heads. By Wednesday, we were pounds thinner and weak, but finally...

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So yesterday afternoon I took a mini bus to go to Panajachel near the Lake Atitlan. 3h drive across the hills. The area was hitted by a hurricane last October and you can see along the road the result, collapsed houses and part of the road. The Lago de Atitlan is a caldera( collapsed volcanic cone) and covers 128 sq km. 3 inactive volacnoes loom...

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 the boat docks to absorb some badly-needed highland sun that heals our body aches. A little ...