You can see Volcan San Pedro and Volcan Atitlan

Instead of sitting by the lake, we decided to get in the lake. In fact, the ever resourceful William called his friend over to take us to San Juan. It would have taken us over two hours by road. We just cut across the water in 25 minutes. A distance of about 15 km. I am told the towns around Lake Atitlan are all named after the 12 Apostles. Our target is San Juan.

We had the boat all to ourselves!!

The water is clean and blue. You can see Volcan San Pedro in front with the clouds on the top. On the left side is part of Volcan Atitlan.

Will be by the lake soon!

Stretched our legs. The lake is on the left top corner but we cannot see it due to the clouds. From now on, we will just keep going down till we reach the lake. We can see a cabbage farm right below us.

On Sundays all the villagers from villages far and near come and occupy the highway illegally. They block off one lane on either side and set up their wares. They are there mostly with food stuff.

Most of the transactions are between villagers and almost all the transactions are on a barter basis and does not involve money.

Traffic snarls can slow you down really bad.

It is called the Mercado de Chopulo. (Chopulo Market)

We are back on Pan American Highway. And this display is on either side of the highway. All the folks live in a village nearby – El Quiche

This village was completely destroyed during the eruption of 1976. It has slowly built itself back up again.

Saw quite a few bicyclists like the one you see here