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This is our primary hotel choice in this location, though availability is not guaranteed. If a given hotel is not available for your tour date, we will reserve you a room at a hotel of similar appeal and quality in the same area.

Posada de Santiago

p>La Posada de Santiago stands in the shade of an avocado grove on the shores of Guatemala's Lake Atitlan. The village of Santiago Atitlan lies between three dormant volcanoes along the lakeshore, and is home to the Tzutujil Maya. Here, Spanish is a foreign language!

La Posada was established in 1991, and provides comfortable accomodations and delicious food. Each of the six cottages is constructed of native stone by local masons, and decorated with traditional weavings, wood carvings, and folk paintings. Complimenting this native charm are modern amenities, including fireplaces, hot showers, comfortable beds, and hammocks hanging in front of each room.

Six cottages are available with a total of nine rooms, including single, double, and triple rooms. Suites have a front room with two twin beds, an interior bedroom with a queen-sized bed, a private bathroom with tub, and a fireplace. The new "Casa Aguacatal" is a large cottage with a king-sized bed as well as a loft with a queen-sized bed.

In the gardens surrounding the cottages, you will find papayas, bananas and palms growing next to mountain orchids and flowers. The altitude - about a mile above sea level - provides an ideal climate for a wide variety of lush tropical vegetation to flourish. Plants that struggle to survive on windowsills in the north grow to dimensions here that make them almost unrecognizable.

The restaurant has a short menu of fresh local foods, augmented by nightly gourmet specials from around the world. You will find fresh juices and fruit; bread and pastries baked on the premises; marinated meat, fowl, and fish prepared in the special steam-smoker; home-made desserts and ice cream; and organic coffee grown, roasted, and ground on the premises.

You can start your days with fresh squeezed orange juice or a fresh fruit licuado, fresh fruit salad of banana, papaya, pineapple, watermelon, cantaloupe and mango (depending on the season), then move on to a fritatta, home made granola, huevos rancheros or blue corn hot cakes with macadamia syrup. For lunch try some smoked chicken taquitos, a blackened fish or a grilled steak sandwich. For an afternoon snack, there's guacamole served with three salsas and fresh blue corn tortilla chips.

For dinner you might start with a delicious soup of the day or the French Onion Gratinee Soup made with a broth made of roasted beef bones that are simmered overnight, Salad or Crudites with Bleu Cheese Dip. Try Szechuan Eggplant, Steam-Smoked Chicken Breast Pibil, Garlic Scampi, Blackened Fish or Steak, or another menu selection for a main course. The menu is augmented with nightly gourmet specials from around the world such as Thai Coconut Shrimp, Smoked Pork Loin in Mustard Sauce, Lobster-and-Gorgonzola-Filled Ravioli with two sauces, to name a few. Dinners are served with freshly baked whole wheat garlic bread or Georgia Angel Biscuits and Butter, rice or potato dish and sautéed vegetables that are still a bit crisp. (This is not typical in this country - vegetables are usually boiled, well done, por favor.)

The bar offers a full selection of moderately priced imported wines from Chile, France, Spain and Italy. Featured are twelve Guatemalan, Nicaraguan and Cuban Rums, including the exquisite 23-year-old Ron Zacapa Centenario. In Caribbean Week's, "Rum Taste Test," a blind testing event held annually in Barbados, Zacapa Centenario has been awarded the "1st Place Winner - Premium Category," for the last four years - every year it has been entered! There is also a selection of Scotch, Cognac, Liqueurs, Vodka, Gin, Tequila, Bourbon and Cold Beer. The bar usually also has Cuban Cigars on hand that you can smoke in the very large smoking area - outdoors where we have a few, thatched-roof "ranchitos." Books, conversation, cards, board games, and the occasional performance of indigenous folk music are relaxing evening diversions at this quiet, lakeside getaway.

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