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Lake Atitlan
Aldous Huxley famously wrote of it: "Lake Como, it seems to me, touches on the limit of permissibly picturesque, but Atitlán is Como with additional embellishments of several immense volcanoes. It really is too much of a good thing." Having read up about lake Atitlan i decided that it really was a place where the view is everything. I had been …
San Marcos & hike to Jaibalito
... working at the hotel.
After that we stopped at a hotel half way between Tzununa and the next village for a drink and took some pictures from there – according to Byron this is the best view of the lake from anywhere on the lake, even from the top of the volcanos. We had a short break here and then continued on the path which narrowed down to a foot wide pathway hugging the side of the hills through cornfields, which is ...
Xela to Lago Atitlan - day 2
... We spent most of the afternoon walking beside a river, crossing it about eight times in the course of making it to our final destination of the day, Don Pedro Quiche's house in Xiprian. Here we were greeted with a licuardo (fruit smoothie) and a chance to relax and put up our feet. Our hosts prepared a dinner of chicken with lots of vegetables and rice as well as some tamalitos. After dinner we sat around ...
Day 2, the survivors kick on, volcano erupts
So with one man down (Chris had headed back to Xela to recover from the plague he had) and with 2 of the American girls unable to walk after the previous day, 4 of us set off again with the others taking a ride in the back of a ute to get there. This meant that we only had one guide, Catherine, who was still learning the route. She did pretty well bar the odd time where we took the wrong turn and had to back track.
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The 3 day hike begins...
The 6.30am meeting time nearly got the better of me when i awoke at 6.30 on the dot. A quick warm up jog to Parque Central where I impressed myself with some fluent Spanish to get a ride to the Quetzaltrekkers headquarters (possibly still some alcohol in the system which actually does improve my speaking).
Anyhow got there before we were due to leave so no harm done. That was beter than 3 of the others who had pulled out with stomach problems, not ...
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