Lake Atitlan

Highlights:
- Learning lots more Spanish!
- Watching the sun rise from the Indian Nose hike
- Seeing the main square, Christmas lights and basketball game with our host family
- Playing cards with the girls in our family
- Meeting friends from previous stops on the trip for drinks and catch ups
- Seeing a Mayan ritual
- Doing a cooking class making atole and tostadas at the Spanish school
- Seeing a religious procession with our host family - more fireworks than I've seen or heard in my life combined!
- Visiting other towns around the lake including San Juan and San Marcos

Lowlights:
- Spending a whole day travelling and being very tired meeting our host family!
- Watching England lose in the world cup
- Serena got slight altitude sickness on the Indian Nose hikeLæs mere