San Pedro is a small town standing at the base of a volcano of the same name. It is one of the most visited towns on the lake and has a reasonably large “social scene” by Guatemalan standards. Approaching the town by boat, it looks ugly – a mish-mash of crappy square buildings – but it’s a pretty cute place once you get to know your way around (save for all of the hippies).
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| Little wharf over the lake |
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| Dancing beside the lake |
We found a decent place to stay - Nahaul Maya – for Q100 per night (about $12). It was clean with a private bathroom and TV, and a hammock out front. We were pretty pleased with the find.
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| Hammock and a room - $12 a night |
Highlights:
- We had Spanish lessons each morning at Mayab language school. We had two on one classes sitting out in a garden with a local Mayan woman called Maria. We learnt a bit of Spanish, and a lot about Maria, her family and her way of life. We felt really lucky to be there.
- Hung out at an Israeli hostel called Zoola, which served great food including awesome hummus, falafel and meatballs. AND played backgammon. We also found awesome salad at a place called Café La Puerta – it could have passed for a salad at home!
- We went to an Australia Day pool party with a bunch of people from everywhere in the world + 2 Australians from the Central Coast. We played beer drinking games, drank beer, ate chips and gravy, sat in a treehouse and generally had a very funny time.
- Q4 (50c)Cuba Libres at Allegre Pub.
- Hanging out on the edge of the lake.
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| Grey and our teacher Maria at Mayab - we took classes sitting in the garden |
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| Beautiful salad - muchos aguacate |
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| Grey at Zoola, chilling at tables in a long tent |
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| BACKGAMMON |
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| Grey beating some little kids at FIFA |
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| Hummus and other great things at Zoola |
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| Buddha Bar |
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| Grey stepped in shit |
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| Another night, another cute restaurant with resident Spanish guitar player |
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