Running up a Dangerous Volcano-Guatemala-Episode 2
I love Guatemala and I love Volcanoes! My girlfriend Ali came up with a plan to fast pack through Guatemala, going up and down 6 volcanoes in a week. This was my first fast-packing adventure, which means running or hiking as quickly as possible with everything on your back. Our team of 4 (Ali, Robin, me and our guide David) set out from Antigua and made our way through the beautiful Guatemalan countryside. The mission was to help Ali film a short VR180 film, I'll link to that here when it's done. In this episode, we go up Volcán Agua, and descend into a beautiful cloud forest, ending up in Alotenango for a little town fiesta.
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The less known Atitlan Lake - day 2 - 100 km hike around the lake (subs: EN,ES,PL)
Do you want to belong to the first ones to do something around the Atitlan Lake, before it gets too popular?
Are you asking yourself a question: can you walk around Atitlan Lake? Yes, you definitely can! This is exactly what we did!
Atitlan Lake is one of the most well known tourist destinations in Guatemala, and I completely understand it, since it is one of the most beautiful places not only in Guatemala, but is also called as the most beautiful lake in the world. Imagine that!
But most of the time, the Atitlan Lake is visited for only few days, and most of the people either stay in Panajachel (I call it: the tourist town), or in San Marcos (I call it: commercialized hippy town) or in San Pedro (I call it: Israeli town). Maybe some more active travelers explore also the neighboring towns on tuk tuk, kayak or on a boat.
But Atitlan Lake has much more to offer than that! It is not only climbing the Indian Nose to see the sunrise over the lake. It is not only drinking free beer in Santa Cruz or enjoying the views over San Pedro volcano from one of the many hostels in San Pedro or buying souvenirs in Panajachel, that don't even come from the region.
I have been exploring Guatemala and its plethora of hiking opportunities for the last 4 months, and my friend, Abel has been traveling around Central America on a bicycle for the last 9 months (his views on bike travel on budget in Central America:
While admiring the Atitlan Lake from one of the usual hiking trails, we came up with a bit of a crazy idea to circumnavigating the lake on foot.
I am currently staying in Jaibalito, which is one of the smallest villages around the lake, since the only option to get there is on a boat, or on foot through hills and mountains. The next town, Santa Cruz is kind of a dead end, since from there it's impossible to get to Panajachel without using the boat.
So that is why we decided to start the hike around the Atitlan Lake from Panajachel, and get back to Jaibalito the longer way - after going through all the villages of the lake.
We calculated more or less 100 km on foot, through Panajachel, Santa Catarina Palopó, San Antonio Palopó, Agua Escondida, San Lucas Tolimán, Cerro de Oro, Santiago de Atitlan, San Pedro la Laguna, San Juan la Laguna, San Pablo la Laguna, San Marcos la Laguna, Tzununa y Jaibalito.
On the second day, we woke up with excellent views. The night was quite calm, since there were no cars passing till early in the morning. But there was a dog who was howling like if he was a coyote. And during the night was quite windy. Didn't rain though, which was quite surprising, since we were in the middle of the rainy season.
On the second day of hiking around the Atitlan Lake, we passed through Agua Escondida and took the longer path to San Lucas Tolimán (not the sendero Cabanisi that we counted with), since - according to some policeman that were guarding the lookout points - there are assaults every day. After some risk evaluation, we decided to take the longer and less pretty path - along the road.
San Lucas Toliman didn't seem touristy - the only infrastructure that there is for tourists is around the pier and the public beach, where we had a bit of a refreshing swim. Ate chuquitos on the market (2 quetzales each), and headed towards Cerro de Oro. After visiting their beach (to which entrance you would normally pay 2 quetzales), which is not really a beach but a pier, we decided it was too crowded to make a camping there and headed into the coffee fields, full of snakes...
Neither Agua Escondida nor San Lucas Tolimán impressed us as much with the views, as the ones that we saw on the first day of the hiking around the lake.
We found a spot on one of the fields, close to the sideroad in front of Cerro de Oro, where we enjoyed another sunset with the view over the Atitlan Lake.
For the entire 5-day trip, we spent 152 quetzales (22 USD), so the daily expense is approx. 4USD).
I hope you will enjoy the video and the views. And that it will be an inspiration for you to do something alternative, less touristy and well off the beaten track around the Atitlan Lake!
If you know of anyone, who is as much into hiking as me, or you think anyone could benefit from the video, share it with them:)
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Finca Santa Isabel organic coffee farm
Some footage from my visit to Finca Santa Isabel in southern Guatemala. This is a large, 100% organic coffee farm owned and operated for 4 generations by the Keller family. This footage was shot in late August, 2010, during the middle of the growing season.