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Panajachel Slideshow
Panajachel
Travel Blogs from Panajachel, Guatemala
Lake Atitlan: Most Beautiful Lake in the World
... in San Lucas Toliman, a community on the south side of the lake, and much of Friday crossing the lake and hanging out in Panajachel. All said, this can easily be tacked on as one of the best experiences I've had here. Dr. Garcia, our poverty and ...
Terug na een heerlijke rit
... such a hotel is that there are no noisy TV's but only some 'heavy breathing' next door once in a while. Finally a warm welcome in Panajachel. Tomorrow we will leave here on our way to El Salvador and onduras. Don't worry, we will keep you all posted on ...
panajachel
... that shuttle i turned all type of green with godd damn forigners shouts road curving the chicken bus wasnt as bad.. panajachel is nice medium sized town very backpacker friendly lot of hippies with good resturants lots of shopping ...
back in panajachel
well afer crossing what seemed to be an ocean im back in Pana.. i found a very small back alley hostel which costed about 48Q i plan on spending the day getting baked and booking my trip to copan honduras. and eating lots of pupusas > over here they ...
Up in the air...
... being on a rollercoster, but 100 times bigger! I loved it, and the view was so beautiful! When we got back we went round Panajachel and I bought a hand-made necklace from a really cool local guy called Rene. We had a barbecue at the hotel and went to a ...
Whatever Floats your Lancha (Boat)
... rise steeply where small villages with white houses perch precariously. We are unprepared however for the level of hassle at Panajachel. We have spent most of our time "sheltered" in the Guatemalan highlands (in the west) where there is ...
Goodbye Heather...
... enjoying any breakfast so far!) in some new place I didn't know (I should've stuck to the Clover!) I then decided to go to Panajachel in the afternoon to spend one last day and night with Heather. It made sense as I had found out the bus to Huehuetenango ...
Lake Atitlan
... big lake surrounded by volcanoes and dotted with little villages around the shore of the lake. We arrived in one of the towns called Panajachel, its probably the most built up of the towns, but its got a good night life and the views of the volcanoes over ...
Lake Atitlan, Panajachel, Guatemala
It was time to move on from Quetzaltenango and we were both excited because our next stop would be Panajachel on the shore of Lago Atitlan. It was described by Aldous Huxley as the most beautiful lake in the world and I am sure that it has ...
Lago Atitlan y Casa del Mundo
... first stop was Casa del Mundo, a gorgeous mini-resort that our guidebook referred to as "the most magical place in all of Guatemala." For a mere $25 per night we got a beautiful room overlooking the lake, four volcanoes and a dozen other towns. During the ...
san marcos hippe town
... new age hippie i know but we really enjoyed it. that nigth went out for dinner at another vegie restuarant, im being spoiled in guatemala. met two brits who we´d met on the boat earloier and discovered we are all gonna be in the same town in belize over ...
Eindelijk Guatemala
... 2.200 mtr hoog in de bergen van Guatemala. Vanuit Todos Santos is het nog een paar zware dagen rijden naar onze vrienden in Panajachel. Er zitten wat flinke klimmen in waar ik zo af en toe misselijk wordt omdat de “chicken” bussen zoveel ...
Empezamos ...
... illegal). Sort of interesting, but not really a Spanish lesson. That afternoon (in fact yesterday), we got a tourist shuttle to Panajachel, on Lago Atitlan, and we went with a girl who was staying in the same house as us - a really nice ...
What a day...
... really looking forward to meeting our family, we had even bought them pastries and a pineapple! We had pizza at a steak house in Panajachel and went for a few drinks at the bar next door, where we watched the funniest 3 guys [locals] dancing at their ...
Lake Atitlan, the Tahoe of Guatemala
... groups are working hard to get stopgap measures into place, such as aerators. We stayed at Mario´s rooms in the town of Panajachel, a nice inexpensive pension on the main tourist street. ¨We¨ were my new friends from school, Ryan and Amber from ...
Panajachel, Rain and Nothing to do but Eat!
... shaking the gate to make as much noise as I could and I broke that too!! There's not much to do in Panajachel and Idan was sick with a cold for 2 days which didn't help. The days revolved around eating and shopping when it stopped raining ...
Volcanoes and lake
... Nancy's log for a more critical assessment of our driver's capabilities and more gruesome details at travelpod.com/members/nancydeb Panajachel This little town is set deep in the Guatemalan highlands on the shores of a beautiful lake bordered by ...
Hola from Guatemala!
... and brought his cute little guatemalan teacher with him. little old man all dressed up for a big vacation with his student to panajachel. about 20 minutes into the ride the man barfed everywhere. any chance that i had of not getting sick was blown at ...
Guatemala
... , where Denise is taking spaninsh lessons. We got here on thursday (Thanksgiving) and will be hitting the road tomorrow early. Panajachel is a crazy town on lake Atitlan. Surrounded by inactive volcanoes and small towns. We took a boat taxi to a ...
Highlands: Leisurely Lake Living & Market Madness
August 5-8, 2011: Panajachel, Lake Atitlan, Chichicastenango, Western Highlands, Guatemala (At the time of writing, 1USD = ~8 Quetzals) A Weary Traveler in Lago Atitlan I took a late day shuttle (Q80) from Antigua to Panajachel (or Pana as it's commonly ...
Murales Ambientales
In December 2010, I facilitated a visioning workshop with six different community groups: tour guides, boat drivers, reed mat weavers, clothing weavers, painters, and wood sculptors. I was still trying to figure out what my role was to be in this ...
Griongo Landia
... not even going to try.I´ll just say I have pictures and even those don´t do it justice. We got panajachel around 1. We got a nice little place that this cute, old lady ran. We got settled just in time to find a cozy spot for El ...
Parroquia San Francisco
On Wednesday morning we went to morning mass and introduced ourselves to the presider afterwards. (Fr. Hector, newly ordained priest from El Salvador) He took us to the parish house where we met Fr. Benjamin and unloaded our two huge suitcases of ...
Lago de Atitlan
... , so thats what we did. Spent about a week hopping around the lake like this; a few days in the main touristy town of Panajachel, then we visited the isolated town of Santiago Atitlan, relaxed in the hippy town of San Pedro La Laguna, and then spent one ...
Market Day Guatemalan Style
... we hope that he really gets the money and it does not all go to the controlling cooperative we later learnt runs much of the Panajachel tourist trade. Oh, I almost forgot to say, we bought a hammock!!! The brightest, most colourful one we have seen :-) We ...
all washed up
... amigos, bueanos, its is a slighty downhearted (but infinately drier!) chica that greets you today! im no longer at santa cruz, but panajachel, the main town around the lake (by 'main' i mean its got more than 2 streets! i got up this morning bright ...
Lago di Atitlan
21.4.2011 Rano vyrazime chytit ´chicken bus´ do Panajachelu, mame byt pred ´cestovkou´ nedaleko busoveho nadrazi pred sedmou, cestou ale objevime pekny pekarstvi, vybirame neco k snidani a bereme si kafe s sebou, tady ale maji na vse dost casu, ...
Lago Atitlan
... med tre vulkaner rundt. Det ligger i hoylandet i Guatemala, saa det er litt kjolig. Vi bodde i en veldig turistifisert by som het Panajachel. En dag tok vi baat rundt paa vannet til andre byer. Den ene byen var en skikkelig hippiby der folk ...
day 27- Panajachel
... to solicit, or do you not, and wonder if you missed a chance to help? The ride back to Panajachel was much smoother. We found a restaurant with a second-story balcony overlooking the beach where we had a good, ...
3-day Trek from Xela to San Pedro de Atitlan
This was an excellent journey thanks to Quetzaltrekkers, great route, great guides, and although there were 15 + 2 guides, a cohesive group. Rested in Xela most of the day on Friday, then attended the 6pm meeting for the trek. Went to bed early for 6am ...