Thursday, February 09, 2006

bienvenidos a lago atitlan

After a three hour shuttle bus ride (we chose to forgoe the chicken bus ride, which is just old American school buses painted different colors and given cool names like Esmeralda), and then about a ten minute boat ride across the lake, crammed in with a dozen other people, our bags, a German shephard and splashing waves into the boat, we arrived. We are now in Lago Atitlan.

As far as we can tell, the activities here are much like those at Earth Lodge - sitting around, enjoying the view (equally stunning this time with a massive lake and towering mountains), drinking beer, talking to people from all over the world except Central America. I think we are itching for more activity, more sights, something a bit different. So we´ll see how tonight goes and determine our next move. If I have learned anything, it´s that nothing on this trip is set in stone - from itinerary to departure date to hotel .....

1 comment:

Sara said...

OK folks. We just changed our tickets and are returning March 1. Now we can relax, get over our respective illnesses and still get to the spots we wanted to hit.

It was looking grim, but now, everything´s coming up Sara.