Occasionally people want to stay
at a hotel rather than with a family or in the rooms at Casa Rosario. In
that case I highly recommend Hotel Tepepul Kaan in San Pedro. Hotel
Tepepul Kaan gives 25% of the price of each guests to pay for the cost
of eudcation for children from very poor families, and yet the prices are no
more than other similar hotels in San Pedro. No other hotel in San Pedro that has such a program.
The rooms are 50quetzales (about
$6.50) per person, per night. Each room has a small private bathroom
with a shower. The hotel is close to the dock from Panajachel, but it is on
a quiet side street so that when you want to rest you are able to.
Tepepul is the Tz'utuhil
name for the god or goddess of air or wind. Kaan is the word for day.
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One
of the views from the roof of the hotel, where there are chairs to sit. This
is looking across Lake Atitlan towards San Marcos and Tz'ununá. Looking in
the opposite direction, the San Pedro Volcano rises up over the town.
The Name of the project funding
the children's education is AJPUB'
Ayuda Juun Paaj Utziil B'eey
(AJPUB').
The acronym means: A little help for a good road
Ayuda (Spanish for help), Juun (Tz'utujil for one), Paaj (Tz'utuhil for
little), Utziil (Tz'utujil for good), B'eey (Tz'utuhil for road or path)
Ajpub' is the name of the twentieth day of the Maya Calendar.