Efficient, eclectic and complete 2-level apartment ideal for 2 to 4 guests. In a friendly, settled neighborhood. At a private lodge with business center, natural solar hot soak tub, sauna, gym, medicinal herb garden. Visiting massage therapists offer a variety of treatments. First World room furnishings in a 3d World environment. On-site management/maintenance. Cable TV, wi-fi in-rooms and common areas. Parking on-premises available. Near restaurants. Very special prices for extended stay. We are located on the grounds of Casa Los Encuentros, which hosts the most complete tutorial medicinal herb garden in the Lake Atitlan basin. Easy walking distance to supermarket and town center. Business center includes printer, scanner, wifi access. The Center arranges Mayan fire ceremonies and memorable, personal encounters with talented, indigenous artists and artisans who offer their work for direct sale at the Center to guests and in their own workshops and galleries to visitors. Our on-premises spa services (e.g., hot soak tub, sauna, fitness center, massages) are offered at a special price to guests. Your apartment, our main lodge, and common areas are decorated with high quality art work and local artisanry. Much of this is available for sale to guests. While we are on the outskirts of Panajachel, the town is small and every place here is within a 15-20 minute walk, to include: the downtown tourist shopping area; the 16th Century Franciscan mission church; the “people’s" vegetable & flower market; and the underwater Mayan artifacts museum. We are only a 10-minute walk from the town’s principal supermarket. We are a 15-minute “tuc-tuc” (cheap 3-wheel transportation) ride away from the San Buenaventura Nature Reserve and the San Buenaventura Hotel, the latter of which is an affiliated luxury resort where our guests enjoy discount access to their private swimming pool and sandy beach . We are just off the main road leading to Sta. Catarina and San Antonio Palopo, the only 2 lakeside indigenous communities of tourist interest that can readily be reached by road. Just 100 meters from our location, you can access public transportation that can economically carry you to these two communities; 2.5 and 5 miles distance, respectively, from our location. If you speak some Spanish and have a good guidebook, you can enjoy these place on your own. Otherwise, for a reasonable price, we can provide you with an educated English-speaking guide. If you are a hiker, you can hike to the first of these along a picturesque road and take public transportation to the second of the two. We also offer guides, at a reasonable price, for the best, most secure hiking trail in the Lake Atitlan basin. Guests have access to all common grounds. Those staying 1 week or more have supervised access to fresh condiments & medicinal herbs from interior gardens for cooking & treatment. Laundry service provided at a small additional fee. This is not a property managed by professionals, rather, by The owner who lives nearby and visits daily. He is credited by Lonely Planet as resident English-language expert on Atitlan and he freely offers useful advice for making the most of your stay. On request, He arranges personal encounters with local shamans, artists and artisans His housekeeper is in residence on the property and is immediately available to needs/emergencies This is Barrio Jucanya, a mosaic of indigenous homes, 1st World chalets, and small businesses. The neighbors are FRIENDLY and there is a small grocery store on every corner. We are just across the bridge from the soccer stadium and 2 city blocks from the town's largest supermarket - a 15 minute walk to town center. We are 100 yards from the main bridge to town center. There is a constant traffic of tuc-tucs (cheap 3-wheel taxis) & picopitos (small passenger pick-up trucks) crossing the bridge heading both into town center & out of town toward Sta. Catarina and San Antonio. Just wave & they stop for you. For those with cars, we have a small parking area on premises and there is public parking in the neighborhood Three books on Atitlan written by the owner are available to guests at wholesale price. Those staying a week or more receive a courtesy autographed copy of the one of your choice. ** We offert our guest daytime and evening childcare (diaper-training children & older) at reasonable prices