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San Pedro La Laguna Slideshow
Top Hotels in San Pedro La Laguna
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Hospedaje Casa Elena San Pedro La Laguna
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Hospedaje San Francisco San Pedro La Laguna
8 reviews
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Hotel Ti'Kaaj San Pedro La Laguna
1 review
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Mikaso Turismo y Aventura San Pedro La Laguna
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Hostal Via del Lago San Pedro La Laguna
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Hotel Maria Elena San Pedro La Laguna
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San Pedro La Laguna
Travel Blogs from San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala
Lake, Steak and 3 Smoking Volcanos
This is a top pick! ... small town on the south west corner of the lake. It sits at the foot of the biggest active volcano on the lake (San Pedro). Surrounded by coffee fields coffee production the towns main business, and there are many coffee processing plants around the town ...
A bloody hard hike and other stories.
This is a top pick! ... same as the well established NIZ (No Internet Zone) that you hear about along the backpacker circuit. San Pedro La Laguna is the Goa (or something) of Guatemala, with a pretty nice atmosphere and a beautiful setting down by the lake. Probably some of the ...
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! ... ; These loads appear to be quite heavy as most times the person is bent over. There is also constant construction in San Pedro. All of which is aimed at the tourist economy. Expansions on hotels, new hotels, new restaurants etc. are ...
San Pedro Week Three: Recommendations and Such
This is a top pick! ... than a challenge. I have 3 more weeks of studies and am starting to research some schools in more remote areas. San Pedro has been a great starting point. I am quite grateful to some restaurants and, after moving 4 times in 2 weeks, ...
Cemeteries
This is a top pick! ... structures of New Orleans cemeteries, but stacks and stacks filled with or waiting for the next tenant. Stumbling upon the San Pedro cemetery, I wasnīt even sure where I was at first. It had the clear ambiance of a religious relic ...
The Alure of Holy Places
This is a top pick! ... of Evangelical Churches due to a major, and effective, influx of Missionaries de Los Estados Unidos. Thus, in San Pedro de La Laguna, there is one historically beautiful Catholic church, one Baptist wedding cake and, from my understanding, over 30 ...
Rain, Rain Go Away!
This is a top pick! ... ; especially as Hollie is ill......bad times! They also serve fish and chips, and a Sunday roast with all the trimmings! In San Pedro la Laguna we are staying in Hotel Helen. I use the word hotel lightly as this room is only slightly better than the ...
My Climb Up "Indian Nose"
This is a top pick! Donīt blame me for the name. In Spanish it is La Nariz de Indigina (sp?) but there was also another name at the entrance to the park which I forget and nobody recognized that name. At least there was no caricature included with this ...
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 ...
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 ...
San Pedro - Showers, Boats & Other Observations
This is a top pick! ... OF WHISTLES The boys and men who run these boats also use a secret language of whistles that Iīve noticed all over San Pedro. Initially I just tossed it off to the same attention seeking habits that many men in the States have (no offense ...
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 ...
Spanish spanish and more spanish
This is a top pick! We arrived in San Pedro La Laguna on a Monday a week and a half ago since then we have been in Spanish classes, been horseriding, cooked for the Guatemalan family we stayed with, and drank a lot of beer whilst watching sport in the bar... San Pedro is a ...
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 ...
Sinking Canoes in Central America
This is a top pick! ... we had dinner in massive group of 20, its was Rob made up birthday to get us free cake, a great move. Today we left san pedro first on boat to panjachel and then onto Antigua. Felcity is really sick again so we are going to the hospital tomorrow as ...
San Pedro Week One
This is a top pick! Itīs been just about one week since I arrived in San Pedro. Upon my arrival I checked in at the Hotel San Francisco which is a nice place to stay. Clean rooms with shared showers for Q30 a night. That is about $3.75 a night. The ...
Gringo town
This is a top pick! ... and F1 circuits donīt usually include small, curving mountain roads, dropped us in Pana(jachel) where I immediately took the boat to San Pedro, at the other side of the lake. It was clear from the first second that it was a budget travelers favorite ...
Santiago, Santa Cruz, San Marcos, Pana, San Juan..
This is a top pick! ... week before Easter. Also a truly tough crowd of indigenous folk who kicked out the military before any other village in Guatemala during the civil war and a boy following me around saying in English "that ice cream is for me!?" I ...
Back to school, Guatemalan style
This is a top pick! ... We set up a hike for the morning to go up Volcan San Pedro, we leave at 5:30 am. It has been a great week here in San Pedro. Spanish and weaving classes and some good adventures around the lake. I did learn some new words and how to use them but I still ...
Amderstam of Gautamala
This is a top pick! ... so extremely relaxed( aka dead) that there really was nothing to do. So we ended up staying another night in San Pedro. Oh yeah and tons of backgammon was played since we were hanging out with Israelis ...
San Pedro La Laguna
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from San Pedro in our entry from Antigua, Guatemala entitled 'The Last of Our Real Adventures - For a While......'. Cheers, K & ...
LoveLEE San Pedro
This is a top pick! ... candles under the starry skies. A very romantic setting indeed, just ask the couple at the next pool! The food in San Pedro was deeleecious! We kicked off the feasting with supersized burritos from the Burrito Factory right on the lakefront, and we ...
you can never leave.....
This is a top pick! ... . I bought a kilo of grapes and chop it all down. Juliette just laughed as my stomach ballooned. Today, we went to San Pedro la Laguna, a beautiful hippy town. We followed the volcanic ash paved road to a simple hotel by the lake. For 20Q per night, ...
ŋDe donde Santa Cruz?
... Marcos, we searched the streets for Paul who told us to do this hike. The night isn't over yet... we will find him... :) We decided to stay here until Sat. and then move over to San Pedro for a night. Hope everyone is doing well... Allie and ...
Lake Atitlan
... hour and 20 minutes, we sat at the front thinking we were in prime position but it turned out we got soaked. We stayed in a hotel in San Pedro which was really cheap but pretty nice too, it was good to have a room rather than a dorm for a change. We were ...
Take Flight
... world. When I sit on the street corner next to a Mayan woman chatting and sipping atol, I know I have "arrived". This town of San Pedro is friendly, and full of energy, color, and movement. I see teenage boys shoving each other down the street roughing up ...
San Pedrah
... īkm 148ī, thatīs a place 148 km down the Inter-Americana highway, we began to slalom through the hills to San Pedro la Laguna. * 'to gringo' - verb. To attempt to apply misguided conventions of mother country in a confusing and confused host country. ...