Travel Directions
The Municipal of San Marcos La Laguna is 170 kilometers
from the capital and is 48 kilometers from Sololá.
Travel is conducted in one of two ways, by road or
by boat.
Traveling
from the capital or Antigua you can take either a shuttle
service (2 hours) or a chicken bus (3 hours) to Panajachel.
Most major tourist towns have a regular bus to Panajachel.
The way most people from San Marcos La Laguna travel,
is along the skirts of Lake Atitlán by boat.
It is about 10.5 kilometers from San Marcos to the
docks of Panajachel. During your trip across the lake,
you will encounter the villages of Santa Cruz la Laguna,
Jaibalito and Tzununá. Normally the trip takes
about 45 minutes, and leaves every half hour from
6:00 in the morning to 7:30 at night. Traveling in
the other direction you will encounter the villages
of San Pablo, San Juan and San Pedro La Laguna. The
last boat leaving from this direction is at 5:00 in
the evening.
Relax and enjoy the colors of the lake, the people, and
the volcanoes.
