New Years Eve @ Lake Atitlan

Simon, the guy who always has the lonely planet at hand said: the people here in Guatemala don't do fireworks, they do parades. We were a bit sad about it but ok we wouldn’t have fireworks in Germany anyways… in the afternoon we heard an incredibly loud explosion in the sky and we knew that it is going to be interesting here. Especially when we saw our neighbour firing up a huge ball with a firework mortar (Mörser).

We made some homemade pizza and even got the traditional tamales from our Airbnb host who is also a professionell chef 👨‍🍳. Tamales are made of masa, a dough made from nixtamalized corn, which is steamed in banana leaf.

At around 23:30 the little - so far pretty quiet town - went absolutely nuts 🤩🧨🎆Read more