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Imagine a crystal-clear, high altitude lake surrounded by traditional Mayan villages. Now imagine sipping on a cup of locally grown coffee while gazing out over the lake at three towering volcanoes.
In his 1934 travel book Beyond the Mexique Bay, Aldous Huxley compared Guatemala’s Lake Atitlan to Italy’s Lake Como. The Italian body of water, he wrote, “touches the limit of the ...
The road to Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, known as one of the most beautiful lakes in the world, was anything but easy. In this video, we take you along the rough, bumpy journey through winding ...
A team of US scientists has returned from a two-week expedition to Guatemala's tropical high-mountain Lake Atitlan, where they are working to find solutions to the algae blooms that have assailed ...
One of Guatemala's most frequently visited sites is Lake Atitlán. To the naked eye, it is stunning. Its teal-colored freshwater sits just over 5,000 feet above the ocean in the highlands of ...
Can I take a photo? Can I? My young host brother was a budding photographer, desperate to use my camera to record life in San Jorge. That's Saint George in English, a small town on the shores of ...
It's a windy afternoon and Lake Atitlán is choppy. Laden with 14 passengers, the last ferry of the day is about halfway across the lake when the captain abruptly cuts the engine.
AN Irish citizen has died after getting into difficulty swimming in a lake in Guatemala. The 26-year-old drowned in the waters of Lake Atitlán yesterday, Sunday, July 31, according to local media ...
NPR's Lilly Quiroz is now one of them as she traveled to the lake in western Guatemala. LILLY QUIROZ, BYLINE: Lake Atitlan is more than meets the eye. It wasn't always a lake with teal-colored water.
Located in Guatemala's Western Highlands, Lake Atitlán is a tourist-friendly area rich in the Mayan culture. There are more than 20 Mayan ethnic groups in Guatemala, and the Lake Atitlán area is ...