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Hollistic Hippies
Hippies, Mayans, Yoga, Massage and Avocados
After speaking with some people in Antigua, we decided to see our last week out on the North west side of Lake Atitlan, in a place called San Marcos La Laguna. A place geared around all sorts of hollistic therapies, spiritual courses, healing treatments and wellbeing. It is a hub for hippies …
Leaving the Lake heading for Chichicastenango
... go to get the shuttle bus to Chichi. This time on the boat there’s only a handful of people on it so I was able to enjoy the scenery as well as seeing Volcano Fuego erupting in the distance.....very very cool!!!
In Panajachel we have a three hour wait until the next shuttle bus and after an uneventful ride to Chichi we arrive in the cold and damp to a night before market day feel. I say uneventful that was until our driver ...
San Pedro
... for a wander around. We managed to find our way to the windy passageways that led to the bars and restaurants and stopped in a bar called El Barrio. When we walked in I thought we had stepped into a cowboy gay bar but thankfully I was wrong. The cowboys however did look as if they had arrived at the bar 20 years previously and never left, quite literally. We stayed there for one drink...an annoying American guy took it ...
Hiking to Jaibalito
... I just got a little dusty, but the second time I slipped over I ended up with half a volcano imbedded in my finger. Not being someone that normally injures themselves this was actually a little irritating and more so because I couldn’t get the piece of rock out. I offered my penknife to a willing field surgeon but neither Gina nor Byron were willing, instead 30 minutes later Byron offered me a thorn from some kind of plant which ...
Lake Atitlan
... we had called during breakfast to book a room), only to be told that we had already arrived and were in our reserved bungalow…some kind person had pretended their name was Gina and taken our room! We were told that they did have one other room available for us and to come anyway. So we left the bar and went to the dock for the 40 minute boat ride to San Marcos la Laguna, which is supposedly one of the nicest places to stay on the lake and is where one of my ...
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