Lake Atitlan and San Pedro

Lake Atitlan is 13km wide and 23km long (8 x 14 miles) and 320m deep at its deepest (over 1000ft). It's formed from the crater of a huge extinct volcano, and is surrounded by smaller though no less awesome mountains and volcanoes. A handful of towns and villages and coffee plantations cling to the sides of the mountains on the shores of the lake.

My friend Anna visited one of the towns, San Pedro, a few years ago, and she hasn't left yet. I went to see her with Sophie, who I'd met under a tarpaulin up another volcano during a hailstorm and we travelled from Xela to Panajachel, the biggest town on the shores of Atitlan, got a boat across the lake to San Pedro itself, and spent four days with Anna exploring San Pedro, Panajachel and the Lake.

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