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Calle Santander Panajachel, Lake Atitlan, Western Highlands, Guatemala, 502-7762-0634
We're now at lago de Atitlan. The lake is beautiful, and situated in an ancient collapsed caldera, creating a ring of mountains and volcanos around it. Panajachel is the main town on the lake, and we took a boat ride to several of the villages at other spots along the lake. A word of advice: don't take the quick tours. They promise 45 to 90 minutes in each town, but the reality is that you barely have time to get off the boat, get a drink, and walk out of sight of the boat before needing to h...
Panajachel, Guatemala crashdotArrived this afternoon via a shuttle from Antigua. At the shuttle stop there were loads of men trying to get us to take their tour-boat-tuk tuk-whatever. We found a hotel and bargained for one night with Horacio our new best friend! Walked around the steets and visited lots of shops with lots of overpriced stuff. The thing here is to offer about one quarter of what they ask and work up from there. I offered 50 Quetzals for an old huipil the little girl at the stand was asking 200Q for. We wal...
Panajachel, Western Highlands, Guatemala nomadgal... easy thing to check at an airport. <br>They had a total nightmare and had to stay in guatemala city for the night which is not recommended as pretty notorious then catch a flight at dawn to San Jose, Costa Rica and then buy a return bus ticket to Costa Rica to be able to enter Panama. We could of done the same thing but after spening around 2 hours on the phone and internet to<br>Copa airlines who couldn't really speak Spanish or English (god knows where he was from). We ...
Panajachel, Sololá, Guatemala cassiejenkins... my head lolling about like a bladder on a stick , this proved to be a wise choice!<br><br>We were actually looking forward to the calm ambience and tranquil serenity of being in the city and spending the first night with our Guatemalan family, who are absoloutely lovely. We began our Spanish courses on Monday and have been studying from morning til night basically since then. Really enjoying it though and wish ...
San Pedro La Laguna, Western Highlands, Guatemala andycrisp... the roads had any markings so seeing anything was pretty<br>difficult! With 5 people in the car plus luggage it also meant we<br>scraped the bottom of the car every time we went over a speed bump so I<br>hope the car made it back to the city ok..<br><br>Anyway turns out these girls like to party which was nice so my plans<br>of starting the Spanish school the following day didn't quite<br>materialise. My lack of Spanish meant I couldn't understand half of<br>what ...
San Pedro La Laguna, Western Highlands, Guatemala evs1210... Nose. Can you guess what that rock formation looks like? The hike up was grueling and I didn´t wear the appropriate footware. It was worth it because at the top was a group of local Mayans performing some kind of ceremony. They were speaking Tzútujil, the local Mayan dialect so I didn´t even have a chance at understanding. A woman was leading the ceremony and she talked from across an open fire fueled by tree ...
San Pedro La Laguna, Western Highlands, Guatemala tonka_eng... here. It's a great little town. You have access to plenty of food or drink that anyone could ask for, because of all the language students and expats that live here. The town has a very large indigenous population, and they are very traditional, so it's awesome to see people walking around in their day to day life in full out Maya traditional dress, but they are like, working at a coffee shop or hostel or something. It's a fantastic mix of indigenous, Latin and backpacker ...
Queteneltengo, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala katywade... it came to his overtaking in the face of oncoming traffic (I quickly learned just not to look out of the front!). We sped away from the city up into the mountains along some rather windy up and down roads and the views were even better than before! (although our ability to enjoy them was hampered slightly by having to grab hold of the seat in front of us every 30s or so and my constant fear that my bag would fall off the roof!) The chicken bus conductors in ...
Panajachel, Western Highlands, Guatemala sarahelective... the mountain to join the others who were soaking their feet in a cold fast running river. We rested our aching feet and bodies, until ominous clouds appeared and the guides decided we should push on to our night’s accommodation. I changed out of my heavy hiking boots and put on flip flops, which improved my balance and grip but not the weight of my pack, which now had the added weight of my shoes. To get to the other side of the river we had to cross a wobbly wooden ...
San Pedro La Laguna, Sololá, Guatemala hess... Estados Unidos. Después almuerzo nosotros rentamos un bote por paseamos el lago. Fue a relejar por que fue hace calor, pero podemos nadar todos tiempo. Te recomiendo que nades en el agua, lo es perfecto. Después tres horas regresamos nuestro hotel y tocamos una siesta. Nos levantamos a seis en la tarde, y fuimos a cenar a restaurante de muchos dineros. Después cenar fuimos a club y festejamos toda noche.
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