We were up early, packed and on the boat to Panajachel. (Trudi got a little wet). Lago de Atitlan is quite spectacular!
Task one was to try to get cash out (you won't believe how hard this can be!) . There are all sorts of rumours about why cash is hard to come by in Guatemala. The most common one seems to be that they ordered new cash but burned the old money before realising that the new money was rubbish (bad ink, easily forged,...). Bottom line is that there is only about a 50% chance that an ATM will actually have cash.
We had to get some books, as we passed a shop that had over 4,000! I bought a new hat, Trudi haggled.
We decided to have lunch in Pana (yep, that's what us locals call it, none of your Panajachel rubbish that marks out those tourists), we had a very nice lunch with a view.
2 comments:
Step one is to start calling it Pana.
Step two is to call it Gringotenango.
Hmmm - step two might involve reading a guidebook and not actually talking to the locals (who don't seem to have heard that name).
It does rather look like a very English play on words.
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