Hotels in Panajachel - Prices and Reviews

Today was another pretty adventurous day. We took a long walk down to the Reserva Atitlan, which is an awesome nature reserve with much to do in one day. While there we spent some time checking out the butterfly garden and watching butterflies coming out of their cocoons and learning to fly. We also did some really cool hiking up the cliffs of t...

Now in Panajachel!! The view going down was amazing.

The lake is surrounded by 3 volcanoes.

We had a nice hotel, with view on the lake.

I took a public boat to get to Santiago, a village on the other side of the lake. I had a woman almost sitting on me... not in a nice way!

The moment I got on the other side, I starte...

Today most things went wrong. Except for the most important ones. Lauren speaking.

The most successful part of our day was the very beginning, when we crossed the border from Honduras to Guatemala. When Selvin picked us up, he told us that the border was closed. Despite previous reassurances that "foreigners always get out", we were a bit...

Crossing the border into Guatemala was the wake up call that we were actually doing this trip and not on some extended Holiday as there had been parts in Mexico and especially in the states when we might have gotten a bit too used to the luxury and forgotten that at some point we would actually be backpacking through 3rd world countries… a...

Our shuttle bus to Lake Atitlan left promptly (a big surprise) at 7am, complete with huge baskets of produce being carried by the locals. The 3 hour journey took us through several precariously small town centres, notably Solola where we drove on a road with houses less than 10 cm away from the bus windows. The Panajachel stop (the village by th...

We are on the road again, which started with a very wet rainy boat ride to Puerto Barrios from Livingston. So we have all of our luggage and we're all in our rain ponchos and we get down to the docks a few minutes early but our boat driver wasn't there yet and when he showed up, he looked a little concerned and was looking for a bucket, which he...

Hola, Daniel and I have taken a bus, bus, bus, and, yes, bus but it all took less than three hours to reach Panajachel on the crystal blue Lago (lake) Atitlan. A hang out for gringos looking for a lakeside getaway for decades, Panajachel was left relatively harmfree during the devastating civil war. It grew from a few expats "just living" to the...

Here is a bit of an idea of what I am now doing while being away down here and learning so much. First, I want to describe the incredible program that starts this week for the first time. JoAn, the Methodist volunteer mission worker with whom I now work as her assistant, hopes to be able to do this program on a annual basis. Tomorrow we, another...

Woke up to a cacophony of sounds, mostly birds but the odd village dog and distant trucks grinding up a hill. We have finally put down some temporary roots just outside Panajachel at the edge of Lake Atitlan in a very funky (read broken down but picturesque) campsite ( called Campana) which is quiet and secure, surrounded by lovely trees and dir...

Hola amigos! Arrived home from South Africa early on the 6th and then left 2 hectic days later early on the 8th. Not a relaxing transition by any means (loads of admin to catch up on, culminating in a snatched 2 hour kip prior to setting out for flight to Guatemala) and the most recent leg of travel did not run entirely smoothly either (traffic ...