Lake Atitlan

Lake Atitlan is a lake in the Guatemalan Highlands. The lake fills a hue caldera formed from an volcanic erupton 84,000 years ago. There are three volcanoes at the lake: Atitlan, San Pedro, and Toliman. The Atitlan volcano is still active. Our hotel, the Hotel Atitlan is to the front of the blue high–rise.

Hotel Atitlan

Hotel Atitlan from above.

Volcanoes

Looking at two of the volcanoes from Hotel Atitlan.

Hotel Atitlan

The hotel was decorated with folk art, statues, paintings, and colonial furniture.

Hotel Atitlan

The walkways were decorated with folk art and colonial furniture.

Gardens

There were extensive gardens both at the front of the hotel and at its rear. This photo shows part of the rear garden facing the lake.

Gardens

A parrot had its home in the front garden.

Gardens

Also, in the front garden was a large cage with toucans in it. I don’t ever remember seeing a toucan in real life so I really enjoyed seeing one.

I have put my photos of Hotel Atitlan on a slideshow. Go to

http://www.peggysphotos.com/hotel–atitlan–at–lake–atitlan/

(Slide Shows, Central America, Guatemala, “Hotel Atitlan”).

Panajachel

We drove from our hotel to the nearby town of Panajachel which had a long market street. Photo: an interesting building in Panajachel with two men in front of it watching the world go by.

Panajachel

Panajachel also had a Casablanca Restaurant and a colorful, unusual mural on a building near it.

Panajachel Market Street

There were many Mayan women vendors on the street. Some of them were merciless. They would follow you down the street asking you to buy something from them. Most were selling beautiful embroidery and you could bargain. However, if you bought something from one vendor, then another vendor would insist that you buy something from them as well. If you said you had no dinero left, they would direct you to the ATM. One annoying vendor kept following me and would not take no for an answer. I finally asked her that if I bought something from her would she stop bothering me. She said yes, I bought something, and she did stop bothering me. Quite a shopping experience.

Panajachel Market Street

There were very interesting women walking on the street, not necessarily vendors, such as this women. I asked her if I could take her photo for $1. She said yes.

Panajachel Market Street

There were restaurants along the street as well as food carts, with some offering international food. This food cart was selling hamburgers.

Panajachel Market Street

I bought this embroidery. The embroidery here was not overly expensive compared to what you would pay for it in the United States and you could bargain the price.

Panajachel Market Street

There was much folk art for sale on the street.

I have put my photos of the Panajachel Market Street on a slideshow. Go to http://www.peggysphotos.com/panajachel/

(Slide Shows, Central America, Guatemala, “Panajachel”).