The Atitlan's lake is the must. There is no doubt of visiting it. There is even great free camping space by the dock in San Marcos which we deliberately avoided as we wanted to stay with our friend in a little wooden hut. The lake is magic, huge, surrounded by the high mountains with little towns (pueplitos) around. We stayed in the most hippy place in San Marcos which I found the most picturesque one. Full of colours, flat surface near the lake. There were plenty of western hippies who were selling stuff on the street. That was a little bit pathetic to sea the old western men completing with locals who are very poor and they desperately need some money. It was apparently the yogic place. I would doubt about honesty of it. It felt pathetic watching all those pseudo yogis who were stoned and drunk the night before and trying to make it up by sunrise in the morning. There wasn't such as beach spot to lie down and sunbath. It was wonderful and refreshing to jump into the weather in the morning while the ambient and water's temperature were still low (22c) but there was no other space than a dock to do yoga. People would do yoga from the terrace with the lake's view of their nearest accommodations. We visited by water taxi the nearest locations all around the lake with Vulcan's view. The nicest one was Santiago from where we took a boat all the way to the bus terminal to start our trip to El Salvador.
