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 mountain ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Surrounded by towering volcanoes and charming lakeside villages, Lake Atitlán is one of Guatemala's most picturesque spots. Tue, 10 Jun 2025 01:44:30 GMT (1749519870263) Story Infinite Scroll ...

1 Guatemala: Travel to Lake Atitlan should be deferred until January, according to the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City, because the road from the Department of Solola to Panajachel on the lake will ...