After visiting with Maria, we headed West the next morning, naively believing we could quickly jot over to Lago de Atitlan, given that it was only 110 kilometers away. Somehow, it took us all day.
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| Arriving in Antigua Guatemala for the first time. |
A quick stop in Antigua to "switch buses" took awhile. I like the chair Niki's in that was a the hostel we waited at!
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| Hanging out in Antigua, waiting for our bus. |
When we finally got our new bus, we circled Antigua filling it until we had 16 people (including one child who didn't have her own seat) on the bus. Then the bumpy, fume-y ride to Lago Atitlan began.
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| We were not prepared for the fumes and the bumps. Oh my. (Photo credit: Anika Huhn) |
By the time we reached Panajachel, the skies over Lago Atitlan we getting pretty dark, so instead of spending time there we elected to take the boat across the lake without delay, to get to our night's destination of San Marcos.
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| Clouds gather over Lago Atitlan (Photo Credit, Yi-Hsin Lin) |
The skies darkened and darkened... we added rainjackets, and then a tarp, in our efforts to stay dry as the boat hopped over the rocky lake.
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| It is getting wet and windy, and the boat is tearing across the lake. We keep leaving the surface of the lake and smacking into it again, hard. (Photo credit: Yi-Hsin Lin) |
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| We're all trying to stay dry. It is partially successful. (Photo credit: Yi-Hsin Lin) |
When we finally arrived in San Marcos, we scooted into the first hostel we saw, no questions asked... we found out later that it wasn't even the hotel we thought it was, but after all the traveling and rain, it didn't matter to us! After drying off, we ventured out for dinner.
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| The main street of San Marcos's tourist area, with a stream running down the middle |
We had Indian food (there are so many non-Guatemalan food options in Guatemala!), celebrated Yi-Hsin's birthday, and unwound a bit.
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| Happy Birthday, Yi-Hsin!!! (Photo credit: Anika Huhn) |
Then we headed back to our hostel and waited out the rain until morning.
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