IslaVerde

Category: Bed & Breakfast

Address: Santa Cruz La Laguna - Xicoy - Santa Cruz la Laguna, Guatemala

A hotel? Well, we prefer to consider Isla Verde a garden of delights; a place to disconnect, to laze about and enjoy...a place with no tv but a gorgeous nature that will fill your senses, with no air conditioning but a cosy fireplace, with no roads but gorgeous paths leading to enchanted places, with

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Villa Sumaya Guest house

Category: Guest House

Address: Lake Atitlan - Santa Cruz la Laguna, Guatemala

A picturesque hotel, restaurant and retreat center located on the shores of Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. Relax and discover Lake Atitlan's living and legendary Mayan landscape. We speak English and Spanish. Villa Sumaya hotel, restaurant and retreat centre is seductively situated on the picturesque sh

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Hotel Arca De Noe

Category: Hotel **

Address: Lake Atitlan - Santa Cruz la Laguna, Guatemala

The original hotel in Santa Cruz, ...and still the best! Arca de Noe was the first hotel outside of Panajachel that enjoys the maginificent view from Atitlan's northern shore. Over twenty years ago Wolfgang and Anna Kallab, an Austrian and German couple, came to Santa Cruz and started Arca de N

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Articles about North America

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Hostels Information

History of the youth hostels movement

The first youth hostel was founded by Richard Schirrmann around 1909. Schirrmann was a German teacher who organized trips and visits with his students. During one of these excursions, a (...) read more >>

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