Panajachel Entertainment

  1. Al Chisme

    Often serves up neat jazz or piano music on Friday or Saturday nights.

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  2. Chapiteau

    After the music stops at the Circus Bar or Al Chisme, simply cross the street and come here, a disco-bar with billiards upstairs.

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  3. Circus Bar

    The best thing about this place is the double swing doors, so you can go busting in like a real cowboy. Yeehaw! Closely following is the huge list of imported liquors, US$2 Bloody Marys, good pizza and live music most nights.

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  4. El Aleph

    Located a couple of doors down from Chapiteau, this bar has occasional trance and hip-hop DJ sessions or live music.

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  5. Pana Arte

    This is a good place to start, continue or finish your night, with a seemingly endless happy hour. The classic rock may not be to your liking, but two mixed drinks for under US$2 is hard to argue with.

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  6. Socrates

    Opposite the start of Av Los Árboles, Socrates is a large disco-bar playing thumping Latin pop, highly popular with the Guatemalan teens and twenty-somethings who descend on Pana on weekends and holidays (as well as a smattering of gringos). The assorted folk pictured on the walls run the gamut from Albert Einstein to Jerry García of the Grateful Dead.

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  7. Solomon's Porch

    The balcony overlooking Calle Santander is a great place for a few drinks, accompanied by big-screen TV, wireless internet and live music.

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  8. Sunset Café

    Head here for sunset (and later) drinks overlooking the lake. It's popular, with great views, food, a bar, and live music nightly.

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  9. Turquoise Buffalo

    This cinema shows two movies each evening. If you go earlier in the day, you can choose your own film (minimum two people).

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