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Panajachel Slideshow
Panajachel
Travel Blogs from Panajachel, Guatemala
Escuela Jabel Tinamit
... us the go ahead to start the process. My friend took over and over the course of time they twinned with a parish in Panajachel, St. Francis of Assisi. On one of the parish visits there, our pastor studied Spanish at Jabel tinamit and it was on his ...
Our homestay
We stayed in a nice, clean house on Calle Navidad, about a 10 minute walk from the school. Our host mother was very nice and always sat with us at meals even if she wasn't eating. The family also had a 5 year old son and a husband. The meals were ...
day 26- Coban to Panajachel
... a leg-stretch, at a roadside market. The most difficult part of the trip was the long, steep, twisting road down into Panajachel. We arrived just before heavy rains started, which I considered a blessing; the road in must have turned treacherous. We had ...
Vuelta del Lago (Tour of the Lake) - by bike!
... del Lago! I borrowed Freida's bike (funny enough, has a basket in front) and joined about 220 other bikers from Panajachel--> (by boat) Tzununa--> San Marcos--> San Juan --> San Pedro--> up Volcan San Pedro --> past Cerro de ...
Say What?
... of them were hippies who came down in the 70's and chose to stay. Apart from Antigua, Panajachel is on of the top tourist towns in Guatemala. I have so far been offered Ganja, Marijuana, and "Wheat" four times in broad daylight. ...
Gringotenango
'Pana' is the groove scene of course, still is, so that’s another film right there, and I captured it all. It was a short trip, but I managed to pack some action into it. My wanderlove is still very much ...
What do you mean we can´t swim??
... ...2 in a row! We made the overnight trip from Flores to Guatemala City and then chicken bus - chicken bus - chicken bus to Panajachel. The bus was okay, but didn´t allow much sleeping (the seats didn´t recline as much as one might hope) and ...
Chicken Bus!
... heard all about how terrible this situation was, and how we should get our money back. People! We are in Guatemala!! Be thankful a bus actually showed up!! Along the way I overheard one conversation about a fellow trying to acquire ...
Sun burn anyone?
... who doesn´t? YOU GUYS!! Just kidding, I wanted to harrass you all about weather. This weekend we went to Panajachel at Lago Atitlan, and today we took a boat to Santiago Atitlan. It was just amazing! Yesterday was more ...
Lake Atitlan
... ; our most adventurous day of trip. We left Guatemala City yesterday after a short bus tour of the city and driving toward Panajachel, on the shores of Lake Atitlan, which is surrounded by several volcanos. The lake is over 5000 feet above sea level ...
Lake Atitlan boat tour
Today at 8am we went on a boat tour of Lake Atitlan. We headed over to a restuant sat on top of the hill beside the lake, it had really good views of the lake and the volcano. We had our breakfast there at 9 and I had a vegetarian omelette which was nice ...
Pretty Pana
... marathon crossing from Mexico into the Guatamalan highlands - meant that we were never so pleased to get to the picturesque village of Panajachel (or Pana to the locals). Set on the lake at the foot of Volcan Atitlan, it's a small but pretty ...
'Strunken' in San Pedro
... seemed at the time an easy transition to the next bus only to find the local who had pointed me in the direction of the Panajachel bus had actually put me on a bus for Guat City in the completely wrong direction!! Doh! After the 30 mins journey in the ...
So colourful
... a town on the shores of Lake Atitlan, which is a huge lake surrounded by 3 volcanos. As it's Easter everyone heads to Panajachel to celebrate and party, and the town is pretty seething with people and traffic. It's really colourful, the buildings and the ...
Shame about the lake
... the first place, still Copa let us book the one-way knowing that we were UK citizens, oh well, whatever eh!Lago Atitlan, near Panajachel We've spent the last 3 nights in Lago Atitlan in a village called San Pedro. The lake, unfortunately, was full ...
Lake Atitilan and journey to Antigua
I awake not feeling as good as the day before, definitely a case of 2 steps forward 1 step back………. We walk down to the lake shore and board a small boat which takes us across the lake; it is about 8am and the setting is fantastic, the ...
El Lago de Atitlan
... hotel's staff was amazingly helpful and they had three dogs, including two German shepherds that we enjoyed playing soccer with. In Panajachel there are two main tourist streets. The street Santander, around the corner from us, had great shopping and lots ...
Atitlan
Panajuchel er en liten, men ganske turistifisert landsby omringet av tre Vulkaner med en stor innsjo imellom. Veldig vakker natur, men all turismen odelegger gleden av aa oppleve den. I tillegg synes jeg at all turismen der odelegger litt av hvordan de ...
Celebrating the 4th of July
... and it only cost $3.50. LOVED San Pedro. It is a little hippy lake front town. Today we took the boat back to Panajachel where we had reservations at a Japanese owned hotel that is incedibly nice, like a real hotel, for $10. Last night we ...
It is out of the earthlings control
... the best place that lonely planet recommended was Campana Campground which is run by Mike - born in the US but living in Guatemala for many years. It was a 20 minute walk from downtown and when we arrived there wasn´t anyone else there but it ...
Hotel Sueno Real
After an amazingly empty ride in a yet another Chicken bus, we are at Lake Atitlan in the town of Panajachel. The ride was fun and not at all crowded. For the entire way we had the seat all to ourselves, which had previously seemed impossible. Now we ...
March 1-March 3 - Panajachel
(Mar. 1) We were originally planning on crossing the lake to a smaller town but Panajachel was so nice and had a lot of conveniences (i.e. restaurants and shopping) so we decided to stay there. We found a good hotel (Hotel Eli) run by a nice family ...
Antigua to Panjachel
I had a lovely lie in this morning before going to collect my washing and repack my backpack. Once this was all done I went for a walk to the sky café and had a lovely breakfast before wandering through the town and buying a few souvenirs. Just had time ...
San Marcos, Santa Cruz and Panajachel
... town. There is a church, school, a central park... We took our boat back to San Pedro to pickup our stuff and head to Panajachel. However, the trip back was kind of suprising. When we were going in direction to san pedro, there was a boat stopped in ...
Santa Catarina Palopó
Thursday morning we took a little boat to a neighboring village, Santa Catarina. When we were in Guatemala in 2000 we had spent time in San Antonio, San Lucas Tolimán and Santiago. So we decided to go someplace new. The lake was gorgeous as always ...
Bit more of Antigua, San Pedro De Atitlan etc.
Has been a little while so have quite a few piccies to upload. Haven't actually been far, finally managed to leave Antigua about four days after I was supposed to and then made it as far as San Pedro De Laguna on Lago de Atitlan. Chilled out little ...
What is Semana Santa?
... begin to explain Semana Santa here, it is necessary to have some background on what is happening with religions. Guatemala has a special sort of Catholicism that they called Mayan Catholicism or Syncretism. It is a mixture of traditional ...