Country Info
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Quetzal (GTQ)
- Currency
- 12,974,361
- Population
- GT
- Country Code
Lake Atitlan Slideshow
Top Hotels in Lake Atitlan
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Porta Hotel Del Lago Panajachel
40 reviews -
Hotel Atitlan Panajachel
132 reviews -
Hotel Regis Panajachel
38 reviews
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Hotel San Buenaventura de Atitlan Panajachel
29 reviews
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La Casa del Mundo Hotel Jaibalito
158 reviews -
Las Piramides San Marcos La Laguna
4 reviews
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Hotel Utz Jay Panajachel
58 reviews
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Vulcano Lodge Jaibalito
151 reviews -
Posada Schumann San Marcos La Laguna
15 reviews
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La Riviera Atitlan Hotel Panajachel
8 reviews
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Hotel el Arca de Noe Santa Cruz La Laguna
9 reviews
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Casa Palopo Hotel Santa Catarina Palopo
81 reviews
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Lomas de Tzununa Santa Cruz La Laguna
124 reviews
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San Tomas Bella Vista Ecolodge Santa Catarina Palopo
3 reviews
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Posada de los Volcanes Panajachel
57 reviews
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Villa Sumaya Santa Cruz La Laguna
45 reviews
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Tzam Poc Resort Santa Catarina Palopo
6 reviews
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Posada Monte Rosa Panajachel
1 review
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Laguna Lodge Eco-Resort & Nature Reserve Santa Cruz La Laguna
97 reviews
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Ecohotel Uxlabil Lake Atitlan
9 reviews
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Rancho Grande Inn Panajachel
25 reviews
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La Casa Rosa Hotel Santa Cruz La Laguna
33 reviews
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San Sebastian Hotel Panajachel
1 review
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Hospedaje Casa Elena San Pedro La Laguna
7 reviews
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Hotel Dos Mundos Panajachel
48 reviews
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Villa Lupita Panajachel
4 reviews
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Hospedaje San Francisco San Pedro La Laguna
8 reviews
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Hotel Galindo Panajachel
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Villa Santa Catarina Panajachel
27 reviews
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Hotel Ti'Kaaj San Pedro La Laguna
1 review
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Hotel K'amol B'ey Panajachel
7 reviews
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Hotel Kakchiquel Panajachel
13 reviews
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Mikaso Turismo y Aventura San Pedro La Laguna
25 reviews
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Hotel Montana Panajachel
4 reviews
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Hotel El Chaparral Panajachel
3 reviews
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Hostal Via del Lago San Pedro La Laguna
2 reviews
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Hotel Monterrey Panajachel
4 reviews
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Hotel Regis Panajachel
38 reviews
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Hotel Maria Elena San Pedro La Laguna
8 reviews
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Hotel Primavera Panajachel
22 reviews
Lake Atitlan
Travel Blogs from Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
Highways and Burritos
This is a top pick! ... this morning. Nelson was able to get a couple more days off, and we spent yesterday and today by Lake Atitlan, a wonderfully beautiful lake surrounded by tall mountains and volcanoes. Yesterday we took a private speedboat to the village of San Pedro, ...
Lake, Steak and 3 Smoking Volcanos
This is a top pick! Lago Atitlan is described as the most beautiful lake in the world. Now, we havenīt been to many lakes around the world, but I canīt really see how this lake could be superceded, it is nature at its most picturesque. It's surrounded by Mountains and ...
Happy 35th amigo!!!
This is a top pick! I have just "chicken bused" myself down from Chichicastenango to the shores of Lake Atitlan (Panajachel). If you want to spend your 35th birthday downing Gallo (local beer) while toe-dipping by a lake, I guess this must be it. Lake Atitlan is just as ...
A bloody hard hike and other stories.
This is a top pick! ... was a bit quicker, and surely harder on the knees, taking us in at just over 2 hours. We were rewarded with a spectacular view of Lake Atitlan from the top for about 30 minutes, before the clouds and fog made it all soup. It usually takes Luis 2 hours to ...
The Most Beautiful Lake in Guatemala and the World
This is a top pick! ... When we returned from the boat ride, Benigno started the ride to the airport. We dozed a few times until we arrived in Guatemala City, where we made a pit stop for lunch at the Guatemalan famous Pollo Campero. Absolutely finger-licking ...
Burning of the Devil and Baby Chickens
This is a top pick! ... , December 7th, the day before the fiesta of the Immaculate Concepcion, el Diablo is burned throughout the Highlands of Guatemala and perhaps elsewhere. Many people burn their trash, pictures of unfavored politicians and, sometimes, of the ...
Immaculate Concepcion
This is a top pick! WOW, ok I just witnessed the most amazing Immaculate Concepcion Virgin Maria celebration ever. So, laying on my bed at 7:30 pm, feeling rather unmotivated to get up and do anything, I finally decided it was just too early on a sat ...
San Pedro - Work and Houses
This is a top pick! Work has a whole different meaning here. Doors are always open. Thin lacy material hangs in the doorways. Most everyones home is also at their business, be it a laundry place, restaurant, cafe, tienda (small convenient store type ...
Chicken buses, pinatas and speaking Mayan
This is a top pick! ... a certain way, then all the men have to come down because there might have been a robbery or a disturbance of some sort. Lake Atitlan really is a very picturesque lake. The lake is massive with 3 volcanoes (Toliman, Atitlan and San Pedro) standing guard ...
Country number 4 - Guatemala
This is a top pick! ... thought we would make the best of a bad situation and stay a couple of nights in Panajachel. The town is on the shore of Lake Atilan which Aldous Huxley described as the most beautiful lake in the world, as we haven't seen all the others we will reserve ...
San Pedro Week Three: Recommendations and Such
This is a top pick! ... quite friendly and just built a newish kitchen. He is clearly building onto the hotel as well. I have a fabulous lake view and a wonderful gallo (rooster) as my snooze button every morning. There are some cheaper places for 15Q however, ...
Cemeteries
This is a top pick! ... still, getting a bearing on my whereabouts, I began to realize I was in a cemetery. These photos are similar to about all the cemeteries I have seen throughout the Western Highlands of Guatemala, many on top of a mountain as the crown of the ...
The Alure of Holy Places
This is a top pick! After many years of persecution, genocide and destruction the Mayan people of Guatemala continue to strive and survive. There are 21 different active Mayan languages in Guatemala. 70% of the population in Guatemala is of Mayan decent and many of ...
Why am I always cold?!?!
This is a top pick! ... sheīs a law student here, and is very politically aware, which is great. We chatted for a while about the current political regime in Guatemala, and about the past. We also did so much work with verbs! I learned more in two hours than I did in six weeks ...
Yet ANOTHER bus ride...
This is a top pick! ... one place with the most lovely woman (Celas Maya) and we all decided to do four days of classes. So Iīm in Guatemala until Saturday at least! The school is great...the proceeds go to support local indigenous students who otherwise would not be able to ...
Elena
This is a top pick! One of my favorite pictures that I didnīt 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 ...
Rain, Rain Go Away!
This is a top pick! ... hit Guatemale in the last few days, this is by far the worst rain they have seen in years. As we travelled towards Lago de Atitlan there were workers trying to move the rubble, mud and trees that lie in the road. We were planning to go to Panajachal ...
Panajachel
This is a top pick! ... Los Volcanes, just as the rain was beginning to lash down. Then having donned our rain jackets, we ventured down to the shore of Lake Atitlan and had a late lunch at the Sunset Restaurant. At this stage we had no idea of the view that we were missing out ...
San Pedro Week 2: My Ventures with a Toilet
This is a top pick! So, looking back to week one, I realize I knew nothing about true food poisoning. Week one was great, I had no problem, ate, drank, explored, slept, ate, drank. Week two was spent in a toilet bowl. I started my classes on a ...
I guess it was bound to happen.....
This is a top pick! Last night was pretty rough. I have no idea what it was, but I ate something that didn't agree with me, and ended up throwing up for a good portion of the night. However, this morning I felt tons better, and have been doing okay ever since. Guess it ...
San Pedro - Showers, Boats & Other Observations
This is a top pick! ... I take a shower the light in my bathroom dims until Iīm done. LANCHAS AKA BOATS The lanchas (boats) around Lake Atitlan are the main transport to getting to other towns around the lake. Locals will take trucks that have ...
San Pedro: Early Morning
This is a top pick! There were mornings, while laying in my bed, that I would notice the sky outside my window. Running out in underwear and all this is what I ...
The First Breakdown
This is a top pick! ... one of them, and neither was there a suitable replacement to hand in Panajachel. A new one would have to be ordered from Guatemala City, and likely wouldn't arrive until the following Wednesday. Thus, arms laden with things we needed from the van, plus ...
borders can suck
This is a top pick! trying couple of days travel... Trying Travel Day One The trip from Lago Atilan to the Mexican border was interesting.... started off with a vicious hangover (this only applied to mark)...picked up a goods boat to Panahachel, then a chicken bus ...
Spanish spanish and more spanish
This is a top pick! ... a day!!!) and Paul and I tried to practice our pigeon Spanish on them at meal times. Clara is a primary school teacher, in Guatemala they have their 'summer' holidays as of Monday 25th October until January, so she is working so hard at the moment to try ...
At Home and Away
This is a top pick! ... mementoes and stopping for a sandwich in an undeniably "gringo" restaurant, we made our way back across the sun-streaked lake to Panajachel. We collectively decided that Chichicastenango on a bustling market day had to be included on our "to visit" ...
The Lake from another perspective
This is a top pick! ... programme we could get hooked on. Weds Up early again and we sort out our onward travel and more internet before our long journey ahead - Shuttle to Antigua Another to Guatemala City Overnight bus to Flores Minibus to Tikal I can hardly ...
One month down, nine to go!
This is a top pick! It is hard for us to believe, but we have been traveling for one month now. All of the Mayan archeological sites we visited in Mexico seem so long ago already. What is even harder for us to conceptualize is that we now know that we will be out of the ...