Casa Del Mundo<\/a> is a relatively upmarket international hotel looking quite majestic when viewed from the lake towering high above the water. The stonework making it look like a medieval castle.\r\n\r\nInside it feels extremely posh compared to what we have been staying in. Beautiful grounds and furnishings a wonderful view from every window high above the lake. A pool also which gently trickles into the lake in which you can also dive into off a rocky diving platform.\r\n\r\nOur room is up high above the hotel with an even more dramatic view from our balcony with the lake and volcanos 'San Pedro' and 'Atitlan' visible. After swimming and lazing around most of the day we head up to the room and kick back on our sun lounges overlooking the sun setting behind us changing the colours of the lake at the same time.\r\n\r\nA bottle of wine\u00a0opened as we stream our ipod through the stereo system in the room. It feels partly like the Amalfi coast and very chilled. Dinner is called and we sit down to a large communal table with all the guests. A different clientele to what we have being used to, yet they were all more interested to hear our backpacking stories. Nice to be able to flick between 'the good' life and the 'backpacker life'.\r\n\r\nMorning arrives and we make the most of our surrounds before the ferry arrives. Another swim, another helping of bacon and eggs at breakfast. Check.\r\n\r\nMartina and Juli arrive on the morning ferry and we join them jumping into a crammed boat and swiftly being whisked back to reality. We head over to San Pedro to prepare for our Spanish school. We check in to our hotel for the week, grab lunch and sadly say goodbye to Juli, Martina's friend and our companion for the last few weeks.\r\n\r\nWe head out for dinner and watch\u00a0the movie 'Motorcycle diaries'\u00a0at a restaurant\/bar managing to avoid the large scorpion that decided to walk through the restaurant mid way through the screening.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We had\u00a0enjoyed a very decent meal in Santa Cruz the night before. Prepared by our German host it was a 6 course degustation meal. Totally at odds with what we had eaten the past few months. Needless to say we were wrapped. We take a ferry across the lake to a town called San Pedro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[427,351,349,438,371],"yoast_head":"\n
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