San Juan La Laguna

It's a boat ride across Lake Atitlan to a village called San Juan La Laguna. Lots of colour is used everywhere, this is to lift people's spirits as times are hard here.
We visited a women's weaving project to see the process of making cotton thread and colours. Its a very long process to make just one cotton ball and some hand made garments can take 5 weeks or longer to make.

We meet our homestay families that we will spend the night with. We are split into pairs and greet our host Florendina, whom takes us to her house. There are lots of chickens kept in a coup in front of her property and the house is built of brick with a corrugated roof. Steps lead down from the front door into her kitchen dining room. There are lots of rooms at ground level, one a store room with just a curtain across, our room has its own toilet and shower and a room with two beds which is very nice and homely. Floridina has three grown up children, a husband and a rather noisy cat.
We learn to make tortillas which are harder than they look to make, you can tell which ones we made..😆. We help her prepare the dinner, which is delicious and shared with her two sons and husband. We brought some wine for the family which the husband seems very pleased with and drink it out of tiny terracotta cups.
Later Lisa and I explore the town and fall upon a concert being performed using the Marimba, a giant xylophone. Everyone is dancing and having fun.Läs mer