House # 1 Cozy Lakeside Cabin

Cozy Lakeside Cabin This cute cabin is at the lake shore, in a quiet peaceful area. Ideal for a couple or a single person. Off the grid with a solar lamp, dry composting toilet and solar shower. The dock next to the cabin is great for jumping in the lake, swimming, stargazing, sunbathing and waiving to catch boats passing. To get to the cabin tell the boat capt. you are going to Pasajkap to the wide dock with a tree in the middle. If coming form Pana it's 40 min. or 4 min from San Marcos. This one of a kind little cabin sits on the shores of lake Atitlan, in Pasajcap, between San Marcos and Tzununa. It is a four minute boat ride from either of these villages. It is totally off the grid, which means there is no electricity and no fridge. The kitchen is equipped with the basic necessities for cooking. There is a dry composting toilet and solar shower outside. The cabin is surrounded in a beautiful edible garden with plenty of herbs and local fruits, depending on the season. There is a cayuco or traditional wooden canoe on site. For grocery and food shopping the closest market is in San Pedro, Panajachel offers more international options, but San Marcos also has several stores in the central park that offer pretty much anything you can need and several veggie stands with fruits and vegetables. There is a unique land access through the Tzan Kumiba'l reserve, where you may enjoy a fantastic hike. For easy and fast access, you can easily get to our property by boat. Boats pass by every 20 minutes during day hours From panajachel or from san Marcos. Private boat service is available up on request. Easy to access all lake villages from our dock by boat. Only 4 minutes to San Marcos This is a special location, people like both the privacy and the opportunity for interaction. We have a spacious dock and pebble beach with stones of different sizes. Water shoes are a good idea to bring! You can jump of the dock to pristine water for swimming. You can also use the Maya canoe called Cayuco and enjoy close by adventures. We advise to arrive to Atitlan as early as you may. Book the 8am shuttle from Antigua, it takes one hour from the airport to Antigua and 3 hours from Antigua to Panajachel, Pana, the "Port of Entry" village on the Northern shores of lake Atitlan. Our place in Pasajkap is located also on the Northern shore. From Pana to Pasajkap, San Marcos La Laguna, it takes 30/40 minutes. Our dock has a swing in the middle and is called by the boat captains "muelle columpio." Before coming here and once in Pana (you may do your shoping there at Chalo's or Sandra's small supermarkets or La Torre for a conventional super market and for fresh produce, the market in Pana) and when you are ready to take the boat to San Marcos go to the Tzanjuyu dock, ask for the public boat to San Marcos, pay 25 quetzales per person, tell the captain or his helper you go to Pasajkap, to the dock with a swing at the end, next to Pierre, our neighbor. By boat, we are 3 minutes before San Marcos and 3 minutes after Tzununa. Remember to bring food for cooking, there is nowhere close by to shop. (Except San Marcos, a 3 min boat ride way) Your toiletries including toilet paper, candles, insect repellent and maybe water shoes if you want to walk comfortably on the rocky beach. We are a 0 waste facility, we only take your compost waste. Our chickens love it; the chicken's coop if the first station of our compost system. We kindly ask you to take with you, your plastic waste or any other non decompostable trash. We have a Temascal, a modern Maya sauna bath. It's best to take it after 4pm. We charge a fee of $10 or Q75. The Municipality opened a path from the road San Marcos/Tzununa to the sacred Tzan Kumiba'l Mountain November 2016. We have a trail/path to get from the lake shore to the Tzan Kumiba'l Reserve. Pasajkap is a jurisdiction of San Marcos, bordering our neighbor village of Tzununa, that extends from the Tzan Kumiba'l sacred mountain at the East of the San Marcos bay, to the border with Tzununa, farther to the East, It is a portion of land about one and a half kilometers. It has large properties, now mostly owned by non resident Guatemalans who live in Guatemala City, a few Guatemalan residents and a larger number of residents from Europe, Canada and the United States. There are a few original San Marcos natives. It is very calm and secluded, also very safe. The lake in Pasajkap has pristine waters and it's wonderful to swim and paddle (we have a Cayuco, Maya canoe). San Marcos, only a 4 minute boat ride or a 20 minute walk offers many good restaurants and coffee shops. There is a large selection from organic fusion at Ambrosia, vegetarian at La Paz, Japanees at Seiko's, wood oven pizza at Fe, Special gourmet at El Giardino, burritos and great breakfast at Moon Fish, In between good meals go to Nectar for a nice experience to have the best coffee or special teas with the opportunity to buy lovely original jewelry, body care products, gourmet organic tapas and food and more, or great bread at Circles Bakery. Nightime hotspots are created from one day to the other for special events and weekends and for special festivities. There is a beautiful park by the water kept by the Municipality on Cerro Tzan Kujil, West of San Marcos bay. On the other end of the bay, East of San Marcos, there is the other "Guardian Mountain" Tzan Kumiba'l, great for sightseeing and cliff jumping. To walk to San Marcos, this is the mountain we hike to get to the level of the road Tzununa-San Marcos. The walk takes from 20 to 30 minutes. Also in the center on San Marcos, the Municipal Park is nice and shady with well assorted mini markets or stores. I buy at Los Arboles next to the basket ball court. There you may find: different types of pro biotics, kombucha, gourmet sauces and preserves, cheese, pasta, rice, flour, olive oil and cocunut oil, good bread, toilet paper, soaps, etc. The best bread, sourdough and many others at the Circles bakery. Check-in is at 4pm. Check-out at 11am. If you wish to come earlier, you are welcome to drop off your luggage until the house is ready. This is the best way because you have your bags taken care of, you take the key to the door and we take you to the lakefront path and hike the Tzankumiba'l Reserve to reach the level of the road Tzununa-San Marcos. You can start discovering the area and are independent of the boats because without luggage, our path is beautiful and only around 25 minutes long! Use public boats from our dock for easy access to San Marcos and other nearby towns. Boats pass every 20 minutes during day hours. Arrange with Antonio((PHONE NUMBER HIDDEN)) or Mariano((PHONE NUMBER HIDDEN) or (PHONE NUMBER HIDDEN)), for night trips to San Marcos. This is a good number to have for any emergency. For example, if you loose the last boat from Pana at 7:20pm, or you happen to be traveling from Pana in the middle of a storm and the boat cannot drop you off in our private dock, or if you loose the last boat at 5:40 and do not want to walk, etc. You may call him if you have a working phone or rent a phone from any of the corner stores in San Marcos. He may also take you back to Pasajkap or any other place you may wish to go. You need to bring candles for your first night, bring as many as you wish, in all shapes and sizes. People find candle light nights to be a great asset and enjoy many candles lit at the same time. We need to be mindful because the cabin is made of stones, but it also includes parts made of wood and section of the roof is made of palm leaves. We encourage self check-in, you will find the key on the door. You may buy regular candles in San Marcos. Remember to bring food for the first night and day so you may chill out and enjoy the beauty around you before going shopping to San Marcos or the heath food store or market in San Pedro. Another thing we expect guests to bring is their toiletries including toilet paper. We provide drinking filtered rain water, clean sheets, warm covers and towels, also kitchen towels. The kitchen has all you need for cooking! You can stroll the garden and pick herbs and medicinal plants depending on the month of your visit you may enjoy jocotes and dragon fruits, nisperos (low quats), lemons, eatable herbs and berries.