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Panajachel Slideshow
Panajachel
Travel Blogs from Panajachel, Guatemala
Sunday in Panajachel
¡Buenos Dias! Today is a day to explore Panajachel. This is one of the major towns on the Lake. Lots 'o stuff to buy! The colors of the clothes are amazing. They are so vibrant! No matter what town you go to by the lake, the kids are some of the ...
Back in Panajachel
... . It´s good to have a little down time to rest! Please take a moment to sign the guest book or post a comment. I´m trying to gauge how many readers I have. Thanks! To see more of this area, go to this site... ...
I just keep falling in love.
... Pescado" any time someone had to pick up a card. Later we headed out to the bar to celebrate Saul's last weekend in Guatemala.......he will be moving to New York for the summer to live and work at a country club.......we will miss him so so much ...
The people are coming, the people are coming...
... "Are we there yet?" repeatedly uttered by my father.....and HE had the map!!!!! We got checked into a cute little hotel in Panajachel, Larry's Place, and went off to explore the market. The colours and selection of goods is amazing and we spent the ...
Day 6-7 Border Crossing, Panajachel & Lake Atitlan
... topes (spanish for speed bumps) which must have appeared every kilometer in the road. Fortunately the drive to Panajachel passed relatively quickly as we admired the overcrowded chicken buses and the wrecklessness of some Guatemalan ...
Back to Panajachel again. This time with Amy's fam
We went back to Panajachel with Amy's mom and stepdad, because we thought they might enjoy it. We went fishing and did a lot of shopping, but it was just as beautiful as the first time we went minus the full ...
Tall Germans + microbuses equals intern'l fiasco
... nice! One caveat on the niceness thing. They are "hardselling", "full court press" type vendors. When Dr. C and I arrived in Panajachel pronounced (Pawn-a-hotch-ell) and from the moment we stepped off the micro, the game was "on". We had people hustling ...
Heading North... Leaving Brazil
... am never welcome in their country again. So (now I have said that) I am in a place called Panajachel on lake Atitlan. A little tourist place West of Guatemala City, caught a chicken bus (chicken bus, because anything goes on these things), my rucsac ...
Weekend trip numero dos.
Amy and I spent the weekend in Panajachel and enjoyed beautiful views of Lake Atitlan and good food along with hot springs in a nice relaxing weekend. My favorite memory of this trip is waking up in the middle of the night our very first night in ...
Week end in Lago Atitlan
... necessary our friend... The boat ride back to Panajachel was worst than the day before, ouchhh my back! We spent Sunday at Panajachel, the tourist town. Shopping and enjoying the warm weather. After a very animated night, i left at 6 am this morning to ...
Teeth, Taco’s and Tienda’s
... in Tijuana, going to Tikal for sunrise from the English couple in Belize and now another dentist visit in Panajachel ... excellent networking skills!!! We were chatting to Dr. Mario about San Antonio explaining that we were looking to buy ...
The guatemalan highlands
... us and some for others... and then wondered how we were going to get everything home!!! We then took a shuttle from Chichi to Panajachel, which is located on Lake Atitlan... the town itself isnt much to look at, but the lake and the surrounding mountains ...
Arrive at Panajachel
Arrive at Panajachel. This is the major town on the lake that we will spend the day and night at. We will tour the lake and the towns via ...
The kidnapping!
Today I pretty much wasted the entire day walking through all the artesania markets in Santiago Atitlan and Panajachel. I ran into this smooth talking 8 yr. old girl that suckered me into buying a hand woven bracelet for Q3 or $.33, I later found out that ...
San Pedro. Largo Atitlan
On Sunday we decided not to have a lie in, but to get up at 5.45am and catch the bus to Panajachel, which is on the edge of Lake Atitlan. It was a beautiful, if early drive, with lots of hills and twists and turns. Three people in our bus threw up! But it ...
Dr. Brownie says, "Eat your space cookie!"
... villages surrounding the lake, all with their own characteristics and culture. We spent the first night in the largest village, Panajachel, and met up with our Dutch friends. They had gone diving in the lake because apparently there are some ...
Chi Chi Markets and Panajachel
... jumped off a 10m high platform into the lake. The rest of made excuses !! The villages were really nice but smaller than Panajachel , each having a different feel. The lake was soo beautiful and still. I regret not hiring a kayak and paddling on it for ...
More from Panajachel
Spent the day roaming Panajachel. Nice little town. More thoughts to come ...
Lake Atitlan & the attack of the chicken bus
Monday Ian, Jericho and I traveled from Antigua to Panajachel on Lake Atitlan -- we took the first (of three) chicken bus out of Antigua without any real problems. We transferred to the second bus and were pretty excited to realize that it was what ...
Semana santa and Panajachel
... they're travelling in Guatemala for two weeks before going to Peru for 3 months. Hard life! This morning i left Xela to go to Panajachel, on the lago atitlan. After a month in Xela, yahoo i'm finally getting out!!! I met Cecilia, my friend coming from ...
Reisdag
... , we zijn gezond en mogen door! We stapten over in een ander busje en met hoge snelheid werd de reis voortgezet naat Panajachel, aan het begin van Lago Atitlan. Met een kortere pauze, maar met een uur oponthoud wegens een complete chaos op een aantal ...
Crazy girls!
... of last year. so we went back to San Pedro, booked a tour to visit a coffee plantation later in the afternoon and went to Panajachel to do some shopping. But by 1pm it started raining so went back to San Pedro, changed our tour for today and spent a ...
Rauf und Runter zum Lago Atitlán
... Hänge kamen nach wochenlangem Regen ins Rutschen und begruben hunderte Menschen unter sich. Auch sonst scheint in den Highlands von Guatemala das Leben still zu stehen. Die meisten Menschen leben in ärmlichen Verhältnissen; Sie leben in Lehmhäusern ...
Jezero Atitlan, obdano z vulkani
... , ki jih domacini lovijo in prodajajo. Vulkani ki ga obdajajo so vsi visji od 3000 metrov in niso aktivni. Ob pogledu z vasice Panajachel sta vidna vulkana Toliman (3158m) in za njim vulkan Atitlan (3537m), na desni pa se dviga vulkan San Pedro (3020m). ...
Lago de Atitlån
... mesa) por lo que no nos fue difícil encontrar con quien tomarnos esas cervezas extras de después de la cena. Next step: Panajachel, is a village in Atitlan Lake, we arrive on the night, again suffering from the madness of the public transport, it was ...
Beautiful Patterns Catch the Eye, Empty the Wallet
... to reach Panajachel on the crystal blue Lago (lake) Atitlan. A hang out for gringos looking for a lakeside getaway for decades, Panajachel was left relatively harmfree during the devastating civil war. It grew from a few expats "just living" to their ...
Lake Atitlan
We've spent the last couple of days at Lake Atitlan in the western highlands of Guatemala. Such a beautiful and scenic spot, you could easily spend much longer. We stayed in the busiest little town, mainly so we have an easy connection to ...
Hungover in the Highlands
I took a two day side trip from Antigua, into the Guatemalan highlands. First stop was Panajachel, a hippy hangout from the 60's perched on the shore of Lake Atitlan, below three massive volcanos. The view on the descent into the town was amazing, and ...