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The Villages of Lake Atitlán – San Pedro & Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 24 October 2011
During our time in Panajachel (aka Pana), the biggest town on Lake Atitlán, we took a day to visit two smaller lakeside villages, traveling in long, narrow, wooden boats called lanchas. San Pedro la Laguna For 25Q per person (about US$3) we got a 45 minute ride across the lake to San Pedro la Laguna, where we had a lovely breakfast at a restaurant right on the lakeshore, complete with French Press coffee. A wander around San Pedro revealed a nice backpacker buzz with fewer travelers than Pana but a tempting array of coffee bars and Spanish schools and budget hotels.
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Volcano-hopping: Tajumulco and San Pedro
Blog: Say Yes to Tacos - 5 July 2010
I´ve had an eventful few weeks. Made it from San Cristóbal de las Casas in Mexico to Xela, Guatemala. Stayed there for three weeks with a wonderful family and brushed up my Spanish at a local language school. Also, did a killer sunrise hike to the top of the highest point in Central America, el [...]
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San Pedro - Lake Atitlan
Blog: A Travel Diary from Mexico, Central and South America - 20 November 2009
Despite the current problems with the lake it really is a wonderful place to spend some time. We chose San Pedro, one of the larger towns, with 13,000 inhabitants. Actually, first we ended up being in San Marcos. Our driver decided that was where the majority of people in the minibus wanted to go, therefore that was where he would drive to. Never mind that the bus had San Pedro written on the side, or that our tickets said San Pedro on them!
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Volcan San Pedro
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 19 November 2009
We got confident. ”If we could handle Pacaya,” we thought, “we can handle anything.” It was more or less with that attitude that we decided to climb Volcan San Pedro, the monster that looms over San Pedro town on Lake Atitlan. Never mind that the journey up Pacaya took only about an hour. Never mind that [...]
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San Pedro – Lake Atitlan
Blog: Viva Latin America! - 19 November 2009
Ahhh, another San Pedro. I was hoping that this one, as opposed to the one in Belize, might be a little more inspiring. And that, for me anyway (Rob had more well-researched reasons), was the reason that we chose this village out of the many that surround the famously beautiful Lake Atitlan. Different villages are [...]
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Impressions of Guatemala
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 27 June 2009
My first trip to Guatemala in 2007 was extremely brief – I spent just two days there on a brief visit from Mexico to see the Mayan city of Tikal – but it remains probably my best travelling memory. Tikal is the most amazing place I’ve visited, and viewing the sun rise over the jungle [...]
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San Pedro La Laguna - Part 2 - The Mayan
Blog: one more left and i'll be on the right side - 28 May 2009
The town of San Pedro rests on the edge of Lake Atitlan; Guatemala’s largest lake. Eight other towns each enjoy a spot on the lake’s perimeter and from here we can see three of them. At night, their lights Iook like points on a Hollywood movie mission control panel from the Starship Enterprise. I find [...]
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San Pedro La Laguna - Part 1 -
Blog: one more left and i'll be on the right side - 28 May 2009
27 April 2009 I write to you from a balcony in Guatemala. It is evening time and the climate here is pleasant. These parts of Central America are more temperate and the wet season is advancing closer; we see beautiful crisp mornings with vivid clean pin-sharp light, followed by tan inducing lunchtimes, sometimes a light shower [...]
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