Adventures of Desmundo

 Lake Atitlan was once a massive volcano that blew up 84,000 years ago. It created a gigantic crater that eventually filled with water creating a huge lake,  now called Lake Atitlan. Lake Atitlán is the deepest lake in Central America. Its surface area is 50 square miles. The lake's deepest depth of about 1,120 feet.                                                                         Will post more pictures soon!

My family and I just moved from Antigua, Guatemala to Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. We are staying near a small town called Santa Cruz La Laguna. We are staying in a large villa called Villa Eggedal. The only reason that I say it is large is that the estate has 10 acres of outside area. It has a pool, four houses ( the main house, Wenche, a house with 2 apartments, and the house that we are staying at Haga n) Hagan is small compared to our house in Antigua but it has four bedrooms, nice kitchen, nice living room, and something that is really strange, the two bathrooms are right next to each other. The bathrooms are also on the opposite side of the bedrooms. Strange right? That is pretty much it of our house. We also have a deck that looks out over the lake. Also a little open sitting area beneath the deck. That is all for now!

Yesterday my family and I went to a sculpture garden. It was on top of a very big hill called "Cerro del Tenedor," or "Fork on the Hill." Our ride up was basically a small flatbed truck with four rows of seats on the back with a canopy over the seats. It would seat about twelve people. The  ride up was beautiful. It was clear so you could see everything. On the ride up we saw sculptures of people shooting bows and arrows, an owl, and several other things. We also saw a small helicopter pad mowed onto a small field. You could see a lot-lot-lot of small chimneys. When we got to the top my m om and I  went on a zip line. This zip line course had eight zip lines, two bridges, a walking path, and a tower. The tower was super tall and when we got to the top we took a long zip line all the way down to the ground. The whole thing took about an hour and a half. It was super fun!!!! When we got done we decided to get lemonade but the line was super long and it barely moved i

Friday we hiked a volcano called pacaya. It is semi-active. The hike was not too difficult and there was a lot of horse poop on the way. Once we got to the top it wasn't really the top. We were on a ridge that overlooked the lava field below. We got to go down to the lava field where there was lots and lots and lots and lots of lots of lots of lots and lots of lava rocks. The lava field is where all the lava comes down and then hardens. When you are in the lava field you can look up to a ridge on one side and the actual Peak on the other side. The peak was mostly not visible because of the clouds. It was so cool being in the lava field. I got to take some small lava rocks home. There were sulfur spots where you could see sulfur coming out from underneath the rocks. They had a little shop where you could buy jewelry with lava rocks in them. Will post pictures soon!!!!