I left the lovely city of Antigua, finally and with much difficulty, on a bus headed towards Panajel, on the edge of Lago Atitlan. I fell in love with Guatemala fairly swiftly, as some places you arrive and wish you hadn't, here the reverse happened, I wished I had been here years sooner. Antigua is a cobbled street small town 'city', with a mix of tourists and locals dressed in traditional costumes, old colonial style buildings, and surrounded by 3 volcanoes. After spending a week there doing little more than attempting to improve my Spainsh I decided I had to leave before it becam too late and I ran out of time to visit other areas of Guatemala. So I arrived at 'The Lake'. Described as one of the most beautiful lakes in the workld, it
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