Location, Location, Location

Inside the treehouse

Our treehouse

Eight days at Lake Atitlan in Guatemala but we were sad to be leaving such a beautiful place. As we headed back to Antigua, the minibus picked up more people from the villages surrounding the lake including a bunch from the hippie village of San Marcos. The bus was now a 'happy bus'......for some.

The incredible view from our treehouse

Each to their own. Free spirit. Whatever floats your boat. No problem with that, but practising their newly learned chants whilst beating an annoying rhythm on a small drum and making the hilarious comment, 'wow, look at those amazing cornfields', slowly became slightly tedious. The finale was at the petrol station on the main road where they spotted a table size patch of grass to perform their yoga! A nagging thought was now running through my head and it began with, 'if I had a gun.....'.

A very long four hours later and we were back in Antigua where we'd arranged for a pick up truck to take us 20 minutes out of town to our new home for three nights, The Earthlodge, located on an avocado farm some 6000 feet up a hillside where we'd booked a 'deluxe' two storey treehouse. As well as a tree growing right through the middle of it, its selling point was the floor to ceiling glass side with the most amazing views across Antigua and the valley below with three towering volcanoes as a backdrop.

Earthlodge prides itself not only on its stunning location but its homecooked food and the evening  meal is at 7pm where everyone meets up for 'a family meal'. We were a little apprehensive about this to say the least as we really didn't want to hug anyone we didn't know. Luckily it was just trees on the hug list so everyone was happy.