Finally a civilized pick up time of 12.30 for our shuttle to Panajachel on the shores of Lake Atitlan. The pick up time might have been civilized but the shuttle certainly wasn't, we were all crammed in with every space filled up. Some of the younger guys were quite tall, so no one had a good experience, except maybe our luggage which was given the prime seats behind the driver rather than being put on the roof. For some reason the driver drove down the same streets more than once while picking up new passengers, our last stop before departing was the place next door to where the first passengers were collected!
We had been told it was a door to door shuttle but after an uncomfortable trip we were dumped at the wharf and even though we pointed out that our hotel was only two kilometres away we were left on the side of the road. After a couple of taxi drivers tried to get us to pay more than the rate we had been told by our hotel, we eventually squeezed into a tuk-tuk (interesting that they have the same name in Asia, we always presumed it was an Asian name) and made it to our hotel on the very edge of town. After checking in we walked into down and down to the waterfront to admire the view and check out our options for boat trips tomorrow.
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