LAKE ATITLAN DAY TOURS
   

Panajachel – Santiago Atitlán
Journey through the lake Atitlán, starting from Panajachel, the most accessible town in the shores of the lake. Boat ride to the other side of this marvelous lake, until reaching Santiago Atitlán one of the oldest villages and former capital of the nowadays scarce Tzutuhil Maya, which make one of the most beautiful handmade clothes of the entire region. At Santiago Atitlán there will be the opportunity to visit the brotherhood of Maximón, the only venerated “Saint” which is a product of Mayan and Catholic syncretism. The Atitlán lake has a number of villages and towns on its shores, each one named after a Christian Apostles.

Lake Atitlán is located at a height of 1562 meters a.s.l (5124 feet a.s.l.) surrounded by four volcanoes Santa Calra, San Pedro, San Lucas and Santiago; the highest of these is 3537 meters (11604 feet).

Chichicastenango on market days (every Thursday and Sunday) and on religious celebrations.

The Maya town of Chichicastenango, in the heart of the Quiché region, has one of the most impressive indigenous markets in the American continent. It offers a wide variety of clothes made by the virtuous Maya hands. The tour starts with the amazing landscape offered which can be seen from the vehicle that will take you, traveling on the sinuous road trough the high mountains, until the crowded town. Neither Spanish nor English are spoken amongst the people at the market.
The town has a church at the center of the market which a Mayan rites temple at the atrium and a Catholic sanctuary devoted to Saint John inside.
At this town the famous Maya book: The Popol Vuh was written five centuries ago.



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