The neighborhood is very friendly, a mix of ex-pat chalets and Guatemalan family households. The studio is on the grounds of Posada Los Encuentros, a culturally oriented activity center secured by a decorative field stone wall that includes spa features like a solar-heated hot soak tub, garden massage room, wood-burning sauna, exercise room, business center, central medicinal plant garden. I personally manage the center. Complete kitchen area. WIFI in unit. Ideal for extended stay. Ideally serves doing business away from the office. Business center with printer/scanner, connections to internet. Our exercise room is the most complete of any found in a lodge or hotel in the Atitlan basin. It holds free weights, a multi-station stack machine, and various cardio machines to include an eliptical. We maintain a posting of various types of cultural artifacts with explanatory material for interested guests. These include: (1) rustic functional machinery used for weaving and coffee processing; (2) a gallery of original oils from San Pedro La Laguna and San Juan La laguna (3) a medicinal plant garden holding a large variety of plants used within the Mayan culture for natural healing. These plants are arranged as a tutorial garden, each with its own bed and identifying poster. We provide our guests a brochure which cross-walks plant names from Spanish to English and provides a brief explanation of the use of each one.