Lago de Atitlan

The day after the volcano excursion, J and I went to Lake Atitlan, which is a beautiful lake that is surrounded by volcanoes. This day was much more chilled out, which was nice as the two days before it were jammed packed with excitement. At Lake Atitlan we took a boat around the lake and stopped at different villages, shopped around, went to markets and really just relaxed. It was super nice and a great way to end our trip.

One note about our trip – it was by far the best spontaneous vacation that I have ever been on in my entire life. We went without a guidebook, not knowing where we were going – let alone staying. We had never been to any of these places before and in a sense it could have been kind of risky to set off on this adventure with a complete lack of information. However, the entire trip went flawlessly and the Universe provided for us in so many ways. We were always taken care of and everything was so easy and it all just fell into place. Everyday we were amazed at our good luck and how beautifully our unplanned day had gone. We both agreed that it couldn’t have gone any better – part of that was because we were with each other, but the other part was just that it all fell into place and because of that we experienced some amazing things in those 5 days of our trip. I wouldn’t recommend traveling like this often, as I am sure that it always doesn’t work out this well, but in this instance, the spontaneity of it was great….