San Pedro La Laguna Travel Blogs

With this marvellous lake beside us nelson and i decide to go for a kyak today to check out the sights, its not long walking down the street b4 a dude we had  met the day b4 started offering us kyaks rather than the usual greenery the peoples on the side of the road offer, he led us down …

Ariel and I met the girls today for breakfast before packing up our stuff to head off to meet Anders in Guatemala City.  The food took forever but we had a good time chatting with the girls. I know that I´m going to miss San Pedro.  It´s a really nice relaxing place to hang out.  …

Obviously Panajachel isn’t the only town on the shores of Lago Atitlán. The volcanic earth is very fertile, the cultivation of coffee profitable, and visiting tourists are all too willing to buy whatever indigenous/traditional junk is offered to them. So it is obvious that Lago Atitlán is a ver…

Well here we are and here we shall remain indefinately.  It`s almost Christmas which means the locally owned hotels and shops are adorned with cheap blinking lights and chiming carols, the neighbors have been playing and replaying alvin and the chipmunks christmas hits (but for some reason onl…

probably the worst place ever.....2 minutes after we entered our room in the hostel a guy came in asking us if we want to buy cocaine or something else.you can`t walk down the streets in this town without being offered drugs every few seconds. its terrible....if you dont want to hike up the volcano…

I arrived in San Pedro Monday afternoon and we got settled in a hotel right away that Juan, our guide from the hike, knew of. The first afternoon there I was trying to take a nap and our room was the next to the guy that ran the place and he was blasting his music so loud I could not sleep. It wa…

A very beautiful travel to Guatemala, little bit of Honduras, Belize and little bit of Southern Mexico. I saw great places, enjoyed very funny activities and meeting some very nice people (You are one of them Juan Carlos!)

Hello all,I actually had to set the alarm clock today, which I decided is just barely ok for vacation.  I met the travel agency representative at 8:10am in the hotel lobby, and we walked down to the docks for my Lake Atitlan villages tour.  The boat was of a pretty good size, so there was alot of…

I only had about a week to spend in Guatemala and I had to stay in Xela for most of it so I didn't get to see much. There's lots more I want to see when I get the chance to go back

I´m in San Pedro La Laguna and it´s pretty ballimous. You can´t even begin to imagine the crazy culture clash going on here, and I´m a bit hard-pressed to describe it at the moment. I´m staying with a full on Mayan family this week and I´m really liking it. There´s a little kink, though…

Mexico City and then heading south. Guatamala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and beyond. We´ll see where we get to when we get there.

Having got my Spanish classes organised for next week I caught a chicken bus to San Pedro La Laguna which is a small village situated at the edge of Lake Atitlan. The lake is huge and is also apparently the deepest in Central America and is a really stunning landscape as you approach it on a great …

I woke up early to catch the chicken bus heading to the lake and  San Pedro.  As i was waiting at the bus stop, two policemen in a truck stopped and informed me that i should always have my bag in my lap, because theft crime is big in Guatemala and particularly on chicken buses.  No …

We finally saw the lake today and it really is quite magnificient with the mountains and three volcanoes around it. I was going to go to San Marcos but the Las Pyramidas resort seemed to have closed at 5pm because it's Sunday so I'm spending one night in San Pedro and then will go to San Marcos tom…

We left San Cristobal and Mexico early one morning about a month ago and headed to Guatemala and specifically a town called Panajachel on the shores of Lake Atitlan. The trip took slightly longer than expected and lasted slightly longer than planned. At one point the driver added a few extra second…