Lago de Atitlan

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This weekend was a 2 day excursion to Lago de Atitlan (Lake Atitlan), which is about 2 hours from Antigua.

about the lake: the massive Los Chocoyos erruption of 85,000 years ago, which blew volcanic ash as far as Florida and Panama, caused a quantity of magma to expel from below the earths crust and the surface terrain to collapse, forming a huge roughly circular hollow that sooned filled with water - the Lago de Atitlan. Smaller volcanoes rose out of the lake´s southern waters thousands of years later and now surround the lake. The dramatic volcano vistas are what make Atitlan what it is today. (The lake is 300m deep, surface area 128 sq km). - compliments of Lonely Planet.

We spend 2 days visiting the Lake and some of the surrounding Mayan villages.

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Photos

Lago de Atitlan
View from the dock, 7am

Comments

[Miguel]

Oh Sherry
I hope you went to San Pedro!!!! You missed out if you didn't