San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala Travel Blogs

Lake, Steak and 3 Smoking Volcanos
Feb 17, 2005 (21 photos)

... 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.
Oct 14, 2004 (5 photos)

... 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
Dec 9, 2007 (3 photos)

... , 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 grand ...

Immaculate Concepcion
Dec 9, 2007 (5 photos)

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
Nov 25, 2007 (10 photos)

... ; 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 a ...

San Pedro Week Three: Recommendations and Such
Nov 22, 2007 (11 photos)

... 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
Dec 16, 2007 (9 photos)

... structures of New Orleans cemeteries, but stacks and stacks filled with or waiting for the next tenant.  Stumbling upon the San Pedro cemetery, I wasn´t even sure where I was at first.  It had the clear ambiance of a religious relic with ...

The Alure of Holy Places
Dec 8, 2007 (2 photos)

... 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 ...

One month down, nine to go!
Oct 28, 2006

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 ...

My Climb Up "Indian Nose"
Nov 28, 2007 (6 photos)

Don´t 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 name. ...

Elena
Nov 25, 2007

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 ...

San Pedro Week 2: My Ventures with a Toilet
Nov 22, 2007 (2 photos)

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
Nov 24, 2007 (3 photos)

... OF WHISTLES The boys and men who run these boats also use a secret language of whistles that I´ve 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 ...

Back to school, Guatemalan style
Oct 28, 2006 (14 photos)

... 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 ...

San Pedro Week One
Nov 10, 2007 (13 photos)

It´s 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 shared ...

Spanish spanish and more spanish
Oct 29, 2004 (12 photos)

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 ...

Santiago, Santa Cruz, San Marcos, Pana, San Juan..
Dec 7, 2007 (15 photos)

... 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 was ...

Gringo town
Mar 2, 2007

... and F1 circuits don´t 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 and ...

San Pedro La Laguna
Nov 8, 2007 (2 photos)

San Pedro

San Pedro La Laguna
Dec 9, 2004

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 & S

you can never leave.....
Dec 5, 2001 (4 photos)

... . 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, we ...

San pedro - Pushing me to my limits
Nov 2, 2008 (1 photos)

San Pedro La Laguna is only a few kilometers around the lake from Satiago Atitlan but the similarity stops at their close proximity to one another. San Pedro has all the bars and restaurants of Panajachel but in a less touristy setting. From our hotel ...

Lake Atitlan
Mar 17, 2008

... 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 still ...

Rinse out..
Oct 13, 2009 (43 photos)

... girl I had met from Guatemala City who I had randomly bumped in to in Antigua the night before. It turned out she was going to San Pedro for a couple of nights with her mates the same day so managed to get a lift down with them. The journey there was a bit ...

Chillaxing
May 25, 2007

... Having then spent a night literally sleeping on a wooden bed, we set off on a very nice trip across the lake to San Pedro La Laguna. Watched Liverpool get beaten by the Italians and then found a really nice hotel with a stunning lake view. We spent a ...

Special sunrise blessing edition
Sep 26, 2007

... (from Holland). For a couple of weeks, the six of us were hanging out together, from Semuc Champey to Xela, and then in San Pedro. We really enjoyed spending time with them because not only was it fun to be with other couples who are our own age, they´ ...

A Tranquil Oasis of Serenity
Oct 21, 2009

... local chicken buses later (a grand total of 3 dollars( we arrived by boat across the lake to the Mayan village of San Pedro De Laugna.  I could smell the serenity, i thought, as we disembarked and was happy at the thought of 3 days and ...

San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala
Sep 5, 2007 (35 photos)

San Pedro La Laguna, Guatemala Beautiful lake Atitlan!

Lago di Atitlan
Mar 29, 2008

... ero un po' raffreddato e non ho potuto partecipare! Sono stato a quello che doveva essere il paesino più carino: San Pedro. Il paesaggio senza dubbi era speciale, ma l'ambiente turistico del paesino faceva pena. Purtroppo si sta trasformando sempre più in ...

¿Habla español?
Nov 15, 2008 (32 photos)

... than other schools but it is relative when you are paying barely more than 100 dollars all in. The actual village of San Pedro was lovely. Very traditional. A fantastic experience and privilege to have it as our home for a few weeks. Other ...