Saturday, July 26, 2014

Last day in Panajechal

I am catching up with the blog so this is a little bit late.  Wednesday was my last day in Panajachel.   I am now on my own since Liz is on her way to New Jersey.  Today, I decided to do a tour of the lake.  We went to 3 different places around the lake:  San Juan, San Pedro, and Santiago to see these small towns each of about an hour or so.  It's a short time, but most of them don't have very much.  Each has a unique flavor and unique things that they are selling to tourists.  The best parts were actually next to the water, where you could get a great view of the lake from different vantage points.  My favorite of the towns was San Pedro, which had a nice vibe.  It seemed to be a place you could easily stay overnight, if not making your home Panajachel.  Santiago had a couple of interesting items.  Besides the church, there was also another San Simon shrine, which was in someone random home.  It was a lot less gaudy than the one we saw in Zunil, but had the same flavor, and there was definite money collecting going on just to see it.

Wednesday night, I made the epic journey from Panajachel to Antigua to Guatemala City to Flores and arrived Thursday morning by bus. 

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