Panajachel Hotels - Reviews and Rates

September-October happenings…

Besides researching, revising web projects, and making contacts for AUDA,

I was hanging out around Lake Atitlan:

Hiking to San Jorge

Making lots of friends, and group dinners

Kickboxing and pilates with LuAnn

Hiking in San Pedro to a beautiful overlook and quiet beach<...

Much to my surprise here was a cloud forest on the tops of volcanoes from where you could get a glimpse of this blue lake nestled between the mountains about 1,000 feet below. It was magical! After arriving in Pana down the hair pin turns sown the mountain, we got acclimatized to the area. Many native people were wearing their traditional dress....

So for the most important things first: apparently I'm missing the best semester of music in Saskatoon ever. Besides Bonnie Prince Billy, Bloc Party, Knaan, GZA, Junior Boys and Max Tundra, Thunderheist, Weakerthans and the Constantines, and Rancid playing over the next few months, I just learned Leonard Cohen and TV on the Radio are coming to t...

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 tahal cele mesice. Nicmene takovy dzus s cerstve vymackanymi pomeranci byl v tom horku velmi osvez...

MayaGuate its adventures travel and tour Operator for Guatemala, with head office in Lake Atitlan with real maya experience and knowledge, founded by a Guatemala Mayan group that knows and feels their homes. It's registered with Guatemalan Tourism Commission (INGUAT Res. 252). The MayaGuate Team provides excellent service that personalized, on-t...

My third weekend in Guatemala I visited Lake Atitlan, a beautiful mountain lake surrounded by volcanoes. The Guatemalan women around the lake all wear traditional garb and most speak the native Mayan languages in lieu of Spanish. It sounds like chickens talking. I stayed three nights in Panajachel, the main lake establishment. My most interestin...

Getting to Panajachel We spent most of the day traveling to Antigua in the mountains, a trip that took longer even than normal because of a traffic jam caused by unknowable causes as we tried to get into Guatemala City. It is a pretty drive through Guatemala's very green countryside. Once there we saw, from the bus, a man sprawled unmoving on th...

Described as, "the most beautiful lake in the world". When the guidebook refers to a place in that way then I got to take a look. Went on a trip across the lake to several other villages. Each of them seem to have a different day that is best for the markets so we chose Santiago Atitlan, then to San Juan La Laguna. We just went to the wharf in P...

Ok, We really ahve nothing much to report here at the moment! Spending the day doing laundry and internet things, so we will update as soon as something exciting happens! We left Mexico yesterday and 12 hours, a 1st class bus, a taxi, a tuktuk and 5 chicken buses later we arrived at our destination - Panajachel on the shores of Lake Atilan in Gu...

Hello, hows everyone doing? I took a quick boat ride over to Pana today to pick up a few things for the house and hit up some cheap internet, the only place to check my email in Santa Cruz is the Iguana Hostel, and they charge twice the amount Pana does, and the service is slower.. Lets just put it this way, I had nothing else going on. The past...