Badger On Tour

GUATEMALA... SAN PEDRO

The cheapest beers and the best best Tortas... perfect neighbours. 

Our last night in San Cristobal turned into a bit of a late one which was potentially a bad idea as we had a bus booked for 6.30am the next day to take us across the border to Guatemala and our destination of San Pedro on Lake Attitlan.

Up until now all of the buses i had taken were pretty dreamy…. things changed dramatically once we were in Guatemala. I didn't really consider that it would be difficult to get across the border but it was. First we were picked up by a shuttle, then an hour later we changed to a larger bus, then we stopped 800m shy of the border and had to haul or bags up a hill and literally walk over the border. After paying the illegal exit tax for Mexico we hopped on another shuttle which took us all the way to the lake. Great we thought we are here…. oh no just walk down there and get on that small boat with 20 other people. 12hrs, 3 buses, a  30 minute boat journey and an argument with the boat owner later we arrived! We ate an enormous amount of curry and drank many beers and went straight to bed. Exhausting is all that can be described as!

Lake Atitlan is a huge lake... i believe 18km wide at its largest. There are lots of small towns that sit on its edge and we ended up in San Pedro, i have to admit we did a lot of partying and the 6 nights we spent there were filled with drinking games, parties and late lazy mornings swimming in the lake and lounging in the sun. 

I did take one day trip across the other side of the lake to pick up some gifts from the markets. I also had some excellent fried chicken which it so happens is really big in Guatemala... just like East London really just throw a few more volcanoes in there.