Country Info
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Quetzal (GTQ)
- Currency
- 12,974,361
- Population
- GT
- Country Code
Guatemala Slideshow
Top Hotels in Santa Cruz
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Marriott Guatemala City
197 reviews -
Intercontinental Hotels Real Guatemala Guatemala City
57 reviews
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The Westin Camino Real Guatemala Guatemala City
124 reviews -
Holiday Inn Guatemala City
44 reviews
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Crowne Plaza Hotel Guatemala Guatemala City
54 reviews -
Grand Tikal Futura Hotel Guatemala City
74 reviews
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Clarion Suites Guatemala City
52 reviews
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Hotel Vista Real Guatemala Guatemala City
67 reviews
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Radisson Hotel And Suites Guatemala City
42 reviews
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Biltmore Express Guatemala Guatemala City
40 reviews
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Hotel Princess Guatemala Guatemala City
43 reviews
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Hotel Museo Casa Santo Domingo Antigua Guatemala
257 reviews
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Porta Hotel Del Lago Panajachel
40 reviews
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Mercure Casa Veranda Guatemala Guatemala City
32 reviews
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Villa Antigua Resort And Conference Center Antigua Guatemala
62 reviews
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Ramada Conquistador Guatemala City
19 reviews
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Antigua Hotel Antigua Guatemala
97 reviews
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Del Patio Tikal Peten
2 reviews
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Pan American Hotel Guatemala City
19 reviews
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Hotel Casa Concepcion Antigua Guatemala
30 reviews
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Green Bay Hotel Livingston
7 reviews
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Peten Esplendido Flores
24 reviews
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Hotel Atitlan Panajachel
132 reviews
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Howard Johnson Inn Guatemala City, Gua
32 reviews
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Soleil Pacifico Resort San Jose
11 reviews
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Westin Camino Real Tikal Tikal National Park
65 reviews
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Hostal Dona Victoria Coban
9 reviews
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Best Western Stofella Guatemala City
53 reviews
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Legendario Porta Hotel Esquipulas
2 reviews
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Amatique Bay Resort & Marina Puerto Barrios
28 reviews
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Las Farolas Hotel Antigua Guatemala
14 reviews
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Hotel Regis Panajachel
38 reviews
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Hotel Ciudad Vieja Guatemala City
7 reviews
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Hotel San Carlos Guatemala City
14 reviews
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El Convento Boutique Hotel Antigua Guatemala
80 reviews
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Hotel El Carmen Antigua Guatemala
25 reviews -
Santander Plaza Hotel Guatemala City
4 reviews
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Hotel Real Santander Panajachel
5 reviews
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Bambu Santiago Atitlan
26 reviews
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Hotel Rio Azul Quetzaltenango
Santa Cruz
Travel Blogs from Santa Cruz, Guatemala
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Chilling on the blustery lake
This is a top pick! ... we were hoping for! We get straight on a lancha (speed boaty thing that takes you to villages around the lake). We are heading to Santa Cruz, where we have heard good things about a place there and is not as built up as the other towns. 10Q and 20 mins ...
Gringo town
This is a top pick! After a scary ride in a mini bus with a Schumacher wannabe, I made it to Lago Atitlan. That crazy guy, who seemed to be unaware of the fact that Schumi has a better car, can´t have people coming from around the corner in the opposite direction and F1 ...
la iguana perdida
This is a top pick! ... at iguana; dinners, staff, trust system, stuff for the community...running for ten years. Kitchen girls, especially Pantrona Town of santa cruz Solala market and the ride up in a ute Town of Pana Saturday night!!! The Crew Walk to san ...
Leaving Xela
This is a top pick! ... half a day in school and the other half visiting several community projects the school is involved in. Since 80% of Guatemala's population are Maya, many community project focus on education and artisan development in the maya communities. All of these ...
Momostenango
Here I go again on a chicken bus they call them chicken buses because you can bring small live stock on board. They are old US school bus that are fixed up by there owners. It is very interesting but I like the 1st class busses better. The first stop is ...
Anna entdeckt Seitan und Crossdressing-Boys
... dem Suennele am See sind wir dann noch ins Hotel gleich neben unserem zu einer sympatischen Auswandererin (seit sechs Tagen in Guatemala!) einen Kaffee trinken gegangen, bevor wir am Abend mit einem deutschen Paerchen im besten Alter (wie man so schoen ...
Blankets needed
... and much colder...Everyone calls Quetzaltenango by its Mayan name, simply Xela for short. It is the centre of commerce for SW Guatemala and the heart of the Quiche people. There are at least 20 different Mayan languages spoken and Spanish is a distant ...
Dreadlocktown
... lake setting. San P is the second most touristy town around the lake (after middle aged American and partying guatemala city youth favourite Panajachel) and every you go are teeneaged gringos in bandannas, half starved looking long termers with ...
Home Sweet Home-Lago Atitlan
... thousand meter volcanoes. The people i work with here are pretty cool as well. There is Airek, the manager, who is from Santa Cruz California ironically. Then there are Andy and Gene the people who run the scuba diving (there is cool fresh water ...
El Fuego
We were very excited to make pancakes this morning! We have tons of fresh fruit and Erika brought maple syrup from Canada for Emilie so we got the very fantastic idea that we would make a big breakfasty feast this morning. I set to preparing the ...
Estamos en Xela or Quetzaltenango
HOLA! We made it safely to Quetzaltenango, or better known as Xela at about 5pm today. It took a 5 hour bus ride to get here. This morning we got up really early so we could go take the Gandala ride. As it turns out, the ride was really short and ...
The Epicenter of Guatemalan Laziness
... behind the village. On Wednesday we took a boat across the lake to check out the little village of San Marcos, Guatemala's premier New Age centre with lots of yoga, meditation, masseurs, a healing centre offering acupuncture, reflexology and natural ...
A Full Moon and a Sleepless Night
... missing all that much. While she slept I hiked up and up and up the insanely steep road to the actual town of Santa Cruz. I didn't see any jeans or t-shirts up there, just the beautiful traditional dress. I don't think many foreigners ...
Ding-dong Sitcom
We got up early this morning to go to the garden in Chichi. The agronomists from the CCDA and Brazil(?) were meeting us to help us figure out what needs to be done for the garden. Emilie and I sat up front with the very handsome(!), sweet driver. ...
The greatest weekend getaway!
... to be staying in La Iguana as well and also should return Sunday. So we joined forces and took a small lancha - boat - the 15 minutes to Santa Cruz. I had read that one ought to pay 10 Q, the locals pay 5 Q, but we always ended up paying 15 Q. Not a big ...
Chicken Bus Adventures
... served as a warning for oncoming cars since there is limited visibility around some of the 180° corners. We made it safe and sound to Santa Cruz del Quiche without so much as a scratch and our bus hadn't been held up at gunpoint. Phew! We took 2 ...
More Fun Hitching Rides, So I Ended Up Coming Here
Accommodation While here I stayed at the nicely run Hotel Rey K´ich´e, 8a Calle 0-39, Tel: (502) 7755-0827. It was in the centre of town and had 22 spotless en-suite rooms with cable TV and free purified water. Their current rates were 100 + 170 ...
Eine Vulkantour die ist lustig...
Nachdem wir uns von der Mountainbike-Tour ein wenig erholt hatten, gings auch schon bald weiter mit Spitzensport. Und dieses Mal im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes: Zusammen mit vier belgischen Paerchen, einem Typ aus Polen und Blain gings auf den Vulkan ...
We finally have internet!
We've got internet! Ahh ... it was supposed to be installed last week but everything/one works on Guatemalan time here so it was installed ayer. I will have to backdate some of our exciting adventuras! Things are going well here. We finally got the ...
Last day at Casa La Red De La Vida!
Well, it is our last day here at Emilie's in Quiché. Tomorrow Erika and I set out to see the wonders of Guatemala! Emilie and Joanna have gone to El Salvador and there is so much to see and so little time that now seems like the perfect time to go. ...
Leaving Xela :(
... cool people from all over the world, and tomorrow we are headed for our next destination, Montericco. Montericco is on the Pacific coast of Guatemala, with only black sand beaches. We are a bit warn out from our 2 weeks of study, and I am ready to soak ...
Noice
... years writing and documenting the human rights abuses in Guatemala, and he recommended the lakeside village of Santa Cruz, as opposed to other villages preferred by most travellers. So on arrival during a torrential downpour in ...
Just another day
... and realized I didn't have enough money for the tickets! Argh. So, once again, I went back to the boat dock to catch a boat to Santa Cruz to my hostel in Isla Verde to get more money, then had to wait another hour or so for another boat to bring me back ...
Got Blown Off Pacaya Today...
... at the fields, mountains, and volcanoes outside the window. We've been told over and over that the lanchas (small boats) to Santa Cruz should be 10Q, but there are huge signs everywhere saying the cost is 15Q, which is what we had to pay. I'm ...
Los Huevas Rojas (or something like that)
Emilie was entertaining Clergy Men and Bishops today so Erika, Joanna and I went out to the market to get some things for the house (cleaning supplies and food mostly). There is so much fresh fruit and vegetable available but were are moderately ...
Last days on Lake Atitlan
... ; we will need to get framed. We carry it in a plastic tube. We will begin our move now, back from the highlands of Guatemala to Guate city, via Antigua. After two nights in Antigua, we move to Guate city of an overnight, then fly back to Managua to ...
Lost iguanas lost Finns&lost minds in LakeAtitlán
... Cruz la Laguna, a 20 minute speedboat ride (and seemingly a few decades) away from Panajachel. Panajachel is to Santa Cruz la Laguna what Guatemala City is to Antigua; rather ugly, rammed with gringo bars, travel agents, ticket touts, hustlers, fried ...
A paradise unlike any other
I made my way back to Lago de Atitlan on Wednesday, more specifically to the village of Santa Cruz La Laguna where I hooked up with Don and Richard and joined them for dinner at their friends' house up on the hill. The view of the lake and the 3 ...
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