Today we went to Violetta’s for breakfast and she served waffles with fruit. Muy delicioso. We had a long trek to Lake Atitlán. It took about 3 hours to drive to the lake.
Lake Atitlán is in the Sierra Mountain range of Guatemala and is the deepest lake in Central America. It sits in a caldera formed by a volcano that erupted 84,000 years ago. It is 5,125 feet above sea level, over 50 square miles in surface area, and 1,125 feet deep at its deepest point. There are several Mayan villages along the outside of the lake that we can go to by water taxi.
We entered in the town of Panajachel in which we took a water taxi to Santa Cruz. This is the village we’ll be staying at and we are sleeping in the La Iguana Perdida hostel (https://laiguanaperdida.com/).
Once we settled in, we went for a swim in the lake, played some pool, and sat down for a family style dinner at the hostel. For dinner, we had zucchini soup, estofado (a Guatemalan dish), and a fruit tart for dessert. In the evening, a game night was hosted by the hostel. We all had a blast and rested for the rest of the night.
-2/C Jennifer Verrilli
