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Surviving the Festival of Santo Tomás – Chichicastenango, Guatemala
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 26 October 2011
Chichicastenango, a mountain town about 90 miles northeast of Guatemala City and a popular day trip from Lake Atitlan, is famous for its weekly market. Vendors come from miles around to hawk everything from potatoes to ponchos to a huge array of local crafts from around the region. A substantial number of tourists come from even further afield to snap pictures and sometimes buy. We showed up in Chichicastenango (which everyone shortens to just Chichi) in time to experience the massive market and witness the culmination of the town’s annual Festival of Santo Tomás.
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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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Lake Life – Panajachel, Lago de Atitlán, Guatemala
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 21 October 2011
Lago de Atitlán is one of the “must dos” for travelers in Guatemala. This super deep, volcano-ringed lake (itself a flooded volcanic crater) is the deepest lake in Central America (max depth is more than 1,000′). The surrounding area has been called the Switzerland of Guatemala and author Adlous Huxley called the lake “too much of a good thing.” While we wouldn’t go that far, Lake Atitlán is a lovely place and it’s easy to get into the laid back lake life.
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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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