Here are a few shots of our short stay on Lake Attitlan. We wanted to show Julie both Lake Atitlan, a very popular tourist destination, as well as San Marcos. This lake about 3 miles wide and 7 miles long, is surrounded by several volcanoes as you can see from the pictures. There are twelve villages along the shores named after the twelve apostles.
In particular, we wanted to show Julie San Marcos. San Marcos, reached by a 45 minute boat ride from where the highway ends, is very quiet, havi
ng the tourist area in a shady tropical setting. Transportation is only by foot along narrow, neatly kept walks, winding between trees, fences and buildings. Not just a few of the buildings and places to stay are quite whimsical. For instance, we stayed in a small thatched roof hut, two beds below, and a small sleeping loft for two more. The engineer in me noted how (structurally) poorly it was built. Our first night there, a wind storm really kicked up in the area, and more than one blast made that hut quiver more than a little. In the morning there were adjacent banana trees blown down across the walks, trees missing many leaves or branches, etc. However, all but some of the trees s
urvived and we enjoyed a day of exploring the many whimsical buildings, nooks and corners, giving both Julie and us more ideas for our own places, especially in the use of glass and a leaded glass window type technique for house windows.
ng the tourist area in a shady tropical setting. Transportation is only by foot along narrow, neatly kept walks, winding between trees, fences and buildings. Not just a few of the buildings and places to stay are quite whimsical. For instance, we stayed in a small thatched roof hut, two beds below, and a small sleeping loft for two more. The engineer in me noted how (structurally) poorly it was built. Our first night there, a wind storm really kicked up in the area, and more than one blast made that hut quiver more than a little. In the morning there were adjacent banana trees blown down across the walks, trees missing many leaves or branches, etc. However, all but some of the trees s
urvived and we enjoyed a day of exploring the many whimsical buildings, nooks and corners, giving both Julie and us more ideas for our own places, especially in the use of glass and a leaded glass window type technique for house windows.We also spent part of another day by boating across the lake to another of the apostle's towns and doing some shopping for natural dyed weavings and other specialties of the area.
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