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San Antonio Palopó
San Antonio Palopó is a larger village than Santa Catarina Palopó but the bursts of color from traditional Mayan dress and the lively weekend markets are no less alluring. Entire families clean mountains of scallions (spring onions) by the lakeshore and tend their terraced fields. Up the hillside, the gleaming white church is the center of attention.
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Santa Catarina Palopó
The lakeside village of Santa Catarina Palopó is a picturesque warren of narrow streets paved with stone blocks, and adobe houses with roofs of thatch or tin. This is a good place to buy the luminescent indigo weavings you see all around Lago de Atitlán. On weekends textile vendors line the path to the lakeside.
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Santiago Atitlán
With an enduring traditional Tz'utujil Mayan lifestyle, Santiago Atitlán is the most visited lakeside settlement outside Panajachel. Women weave and wear huipiles embroidered with brilliantly colored birds and flowers, and the town's cofradías (Mayan religious brotherhoods) maintain the ceremonies and rituals of Mayan Catholicism.
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