Sololá ( Sunday 02/20 )
On my way back from Los Encuertos to Pana, I got off the bus - about 2 miles before we arrived
in Sololá ( 2110 m ). From there I had a great overview of Sololá and the Lago de
Atitlán. As I took a picture a man in the traditional colorful Sololá costume came
by and tried to talk to me, he had a strong accent so I did hardly understand anything,
really too bad that my spanish was not better. I asked him if it was ok if I took a picture
of him and he agreed. Than I walked down to Sololá, there it was also market day on Sunday.
The nice thing about this market was that there were hardly any tourists, but many local
people in their colorful costumes - so I strolled for maybe 30 min over this market, before
I started to go further downhill to Pana.
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View of Sololá & Lago de Atitlán
Women in colorful costumes on a market day
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A man in traditional clothing
Plaza of Sololá on a Sunday
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Bus stop in Sololá
View back to Sololá
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On my way downhill to Panajachel I had at every corner beautiful view of the Lago de Atitlán
and it's three volcanos. It was a perfect sunny day with a clear blue sky. After I had walked
for about 1 1/2 hours I catched a bus for the rest of the distance down to Pana. Since I had
left Chichi very early I was now back in Pana at 1pm. First I went back to my apartment, than
I got some lunch - a big fruit salad, and after that I relaxed again down at the beach of Pana.
The day ended with a beautiful sunset on the l ake.
Panajachel ( Monday 02/21 - Friday 02/25 )
From Monday to Thursday I was in the morning "back to school" and in the afternoon I
went either shopping or relaxed on the lake or did short excursions around the lake.
On Wednesday afternoon I had first planned to visit San Pedro, but since Gregorio had
asked me and 2 other students ( Kate and Kathy ) if we want to go for an excursion to
the Nature Preserve in Pana, I decided to forget about San Pedro and take part in
the "school" trip. It's a nice small Nature Preserve and I really was surprised to
find something like this in Pana - I would say it's definitely worth a visit. There
you can stoll amongst the many forest plants and trees you can see waterfalls, monkeys,
"pisote", eagles, butterflies and more . . .
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Spider Monkey
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Street scene on our way back to Panajachel
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02/25 - My last day in Pana: On Friday morning I first packed up all my stuff again, moved out
of "my" apartment and than went to school. At noon I had to said goodbye to the friendly
staff of the Jabel Tinamit spanish school, grabed some lunch and got on a bus at 2pm to
Los Encuertos where I catched up with the bus to Quetzaltenango ( short form = Xela ).
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