Hotel Atitlan Panajachel
6 calle 6 - 38 zona 9 Local 6, Buenaventura Panajachel, Lake Atitlan, Western Highlands, Guatemala
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Mystical Lago Atitlan
With Brian (Nathan's Friend who had come to join us for a week) in tow we visited Lake Atitlan for a couple of days and stayed at the beautiful Hotel Atitlan just outside of Panajachel. Atitlan is definitely one of the most beautiful lakes in the world with amazing volcano views and a magical aura about it. After sipping on wonderful margaritas for …
SPIRITUAL RITUAL AT IXIMCHE
Before leaving for Lake Atitlan we managed to squeeze in a tour of the hotel grounds with the children. We were really sorry to leave Antiqua as we felt we had not really spent long enough to explore here and visit some of the museums.
We were driving to Iximche which was a Maya Cakchiquel (no idea what that means) city founded in …
CHICHICASTENANGO MARKET
After breakfast Pablo met us to take us to Chichicastenango Market. Market days are Thursdays and Sundays and it is home to what is the most colourful native market in Central America where vendors of textiles, leathers, jewelery masks, ponchos and tourist items along with everyday goods come from all over Guatemala.
As soon as we arrived …
TOUR OF LAKE ATITLAN
We joined Pablo on a boat for a tour of Lake Atitlan. This is a large lake in the Guatemalan Highlands and is the deepest lake in Central America and is surrounded by three volcanoes, two extinct and one dormant. Surrounding the lake are towns and villages of Maya people who speak one of three Maya languages – Kaqchiquel, Tzutuhil, Quiche.
Guatemala
My first day in Guatemala was literally a day from hell. I had my first bad experience with my good old friend Larium, the Malaria prevention drug. The pain kind of started at the border with Belize and just grew and grew as the day went on. Thank God my hotel room had air con. I was more or less flawed on my bed for around 16 hours with perhaps …



