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Lake Atitlan Slideshow
Lake Atitlan
Travel Blogs from Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
San Marcos & Santa Cruz
When you descend towards Lago Atitlan from the Highlands it really does take your breath away! It is a crater lake formed by the collapse of 2 volcanoes whose eruptions were so huge that debris was scattered as far away as Florida and ...
Feb 15th
hola amigos i guess we should explain...the keyboards here are different from home, please pardon the lack of capital letters, punctiation, etc. ok! last night we met with members of the panajachel church. most of them are involved in ...
PG Tips & Scrabble
... that had "imported" Tetly Tea - such a luxury! All of our time here was spent in hammock gazing out on the lake. Weather was too unpredictable to climb Volcan San Pedro, and we were too tired to head to ChiChi for the huuuge market they ...
Lake Atitlan
Follow fantastic few weeks in Mexico we caught a bus over the border to Guatemala and the beautiful Lake Atitlan. We ended up staying in San Pedro de la Laguna, a lovely little town on the shores of lake atitlan. The lake is beautiful and crystal clear, ...
Ueber die Vor- und Nachteile von Visakarten
Gestern gings um 06.30 auf nach Chichi (Chichicastenango), zusammen mit Connie und Peter (deutsches Paerchen) und Martha und Cynthia (Mexiko/Austin) den Markt erkunden. Frisch in Chichi angekommen, wollten wir kurz mal Geld abheben. Wollten. Bancomat 1: ...
Knock, knock, knocking on ......
16th March 2010 Hotel Santiago, Coatepeque, Guatemala (160Q) Manze – Coatepeque (65 kms) Hot and humid The road to Manze involved a bit more climbing than we anticipated, nothing major but the heat made it very difficult. We finally ...
The greatest weekend getaway!
Friday I had booked a trip to Lake Atitlan. After the morning break at school, we saw "When the mountains tremble" - a very interesting documentary on the Guatemalan civil war in the 80ies and 90ies. Unfortunately, in order to catch the bus we had to ...
Spanish Lessons and Long Island Ice Tea infamy
... Tulum. The rest of the night was spent catching up and swapping stories. San Pedro is a small village on Lake Atitlan. The lake is made from a collapsed volcano and kind of looks like Australia from above. This makes Panajachel into ...
Greeting from San Pedro La Laguna, Lake Atitlan!
... Guatemala City, about a 2 1/2 hour trip from the city by mini-van. San Pedro is a small town on the shores of Lake Atitlan with an indigenous Mayan population so its pretty cultured, but the lake is amazing, the most beautiful in the world apparently and ...
Mi viaje to tourist central
... down the main street to the lake. Their were merchants lining the street. We walked straight down to the lake. Panachel is one of cities surrounding Lago de Atitlan. Which is also an old volcan turned into a lake. This is also surrounded by volcans. ...
Lake Atitlan
Lake Atitlan Back on the Chicken bus, our next stop was Panajachel on the shores of the beautiful Lake Atitlan. It is ringed with hills and volcanoes and the water is a soft silvery blue. The next day we took a boat around the lake. Our ...
Pacaya Volcano and Lake Atitlan
... ... so after an evening of outing and fun, i got woken up abruptly in the morning at 7:20am because i forgot i booked a tour to lake atitlan.. well not forgot.. but i wasn't sure if i booked it because i never paid the travel agency. but off i went ...
Panajachel_Chichicastenango, Guatemala
... America with that would have had a field day in the markets. Even I bought a few things. The highlight of Chichi (and Guatemala so far) was the cathedral. The Mayans are generally Catholic, but have kept many of their traditional beliefs and gods. So ...
San Pedro de la Laguna, Lago de Atitlan
... late that the previous map pin was placed in the wrong place but just know that Guatemal City is not that far away from LAke Atitlan where we are presently staying. Yesterday, the owner of the Belen Inn, arranged a shuttle van for us to travel to ...
Devout or drunken?
... : San Pedro is not exactly a quaint or pretty town (in fact, far from it), but it's location on the shores of Lake Atitlan, overlooked by (dormant) volcanoes is stunning! As in the rest of Guatemala almost all of the buildings look unfinished, with metal ...
More schoolin in San Pedro
... more Spanish, I really didnt do much in San Pedro. I spent one day kayaking across the lake to San Pablo (every town on lake Atitlan is named after a Saint), and returned there again later at night with Sams group as they were having a bit of a festival ...
Eine Vulkantour die ist lustig...
... aus! Nach dem Abstieg gab es ein super "Zmorge" im Rainbow-Cafe (Suppe und griechisches Sandwich *mmmmh* =)) und um 12 gings weiter an den Lago Atitlan, wo wir im La Iguana Perdida ein super-urwaldiges Bungalow bezogen, und fuer 12h ins Koma ...
Anna habla Espaņol
Waehrend Anna jeden morgen von 9-13h Spanischunterricht hat, erkundet Tom San Pedro, zuegelt von Jarachik ins Zoola (wo es jede Menge Israelis hat, die den ganzen Tag nur Kiffen und in ihre iPhones schauen), geht einmal kayaken (und schlaeft fast dabei ...
LAGO DE ATITLAN
... clothes, but the men here all wear striped, half-length embroidered trousers (the most beautiful in Guatemala). Santiago Lake Atitlan Women of Santiago Lake Atitlan Men of Santiago Lake Atitlan The streets are cobble stone ...
San pedro - Pushing me to my limits
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 ...
Adjectivos, Adjectivos, y Mas Adjectivos!
... system changed about 15 (?) years ago to allow indigenous languages to be taught in schools. Almost 60% of the population of Guatemala is indigenas, and up until then, they weren't allowed to teach or speak their indigenous languages in school. Now, ...
Tour de Lago de Atitlan
Ahojte rano jsem vyrazil na vylet lodi po jezere Atitlan, ktere je pomerne rozlehle a oblopeno nekolika vulkany. Byla to velmi prijemna jizda a navstivili jsme tri vesnicky, kde mnoho lidi nakupovalo suvenyry, coz ja ted moc nemuzu, protoze bych to ...
THE UGLIEST AMERICAN: Grounds For Dismissal
... and the mystery was at last solved. TTīs afterparties: Come for the feral dogs, stay for the amnesia. Observations about Guatemala while on tour: Nobody ever has change for anything. I find myself drinking more Mozas just so I donīt have to ...
Around the Lake
... to the waterfront to get an idea of what to expect for the rest of the day. I was floored with the view of Lake Atitlan and the backdrop of the three volcanoes (San Pedro, Toliman and Atitlan) which ringed the lake. The lake itself was a ...
Panajachel - The most beautiful lake in the world
... a old English explorer. After arriving on Monday evening I can see why he thought that. Lago de Atitlan is in the western highlands of Guatemala, nestled between mountains and three dormant volcanoes.We arrived in Panajachel with the intention of staying ...