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Todos Santos Slideshow
Todos Santos
Travel Blogs from Todos Santos, Guatemala
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Native Village
This is a top pick! Last Monday, I left Huehuetenango and chicken bussed it to Todos Santos ... a small indigenous village in the Cuchumatanes Mountains, the highest in central America. The road to get here ascends 1000m (3300 ft) up a windy scenic road before plunging into ...
Drunk days
This is a top pick! ... town, although we didn´t have the great views of distant volcanoes that can be seen on clear days. We returned via pickup to Todos Santos that afternoon, enjoyed fried chicken in a comedor popular with the locals and decided to get the heck out of town. ...
Todos Santos Festival
This is a top pick! ... , a French girl. It would normally be half the price but because it was the towns annual festival the rates double. Todos Santos is normally a quiet town and quite traditional.. all the men wear the same white shirts with red/purple stripes and ...
From Lago Atitlan to Todos Santos
This is a top pick! ... . This is one area in Guatemala where I would not hesitate to go back and explore more. From Nebaj, I made my way to Todos Santos Cuchumantanes, a small town in the highest mountain range of Guatemala. I only stayed here one night as i felt that my time ...
Un Poco Loco
... hills. We decided to get away from it all for a bit, and headed off on a hike up the mountainside, for a view of Todos Santos and the surrounding villages - unfortunately, the 'far-sighted' council have decided that the best place to put the village's ...
Sickness
... cross-fading the corn into moosh, a kind of drinkable grits. Yet, all the while the conversation is about Vacilia´s health. Todos Santos has no doctor, just one health promoter for the entire town. The man does elementary check-ups, but since he's ...
The Custom of Silence
Rigoberto Menchu writes that silence is important within the Indian communities of Guatemala, because, as she says, Indians have many secrets. She's right. As I eat with my host family in their dirt floor kitchen, chickens threading in and out among the ...
Arriving in Todos Santos
... side of the mountain. After jostling through the blinding fog and over a shallow stream we came to the Mam village of Todos Santos. The first noticeable thing about the city is the architecture. A stark contrast from the rest of Guatemala, the ...
Las Letras
Today Polo led Adam and I on a hike to Las Letras, the spot where the army has spelled "Todos Santos" Hollywood-style on a hillside overlooking the town. The site is impressive when seen from down below, yet at the source there is only a mass of ...
Back of Beyond
For some reason I thought it might be fun to go off the beaten track a bit and go visit some of the more remote highland towns. This allowed me to travel in complete discomfort for a long time in the old US school buses that are used to get around ...
HueHue to Todos Santos
Guatemala Boarder to Todos Santos The Guatemalan boarder seemed to be fairly basic upon arrival. Driving though was a different story; markets had been setup on streets on both sides of the boarder with hundreds of people walking on the road. It was an ...
Off The Beaten Track? What Track?!
... 'd seen our fair share of raw Guatemalan life, we believed it. Unlike most of the other towns in Guatemala, not only the women, but the men of Todos Santos wore traditional clothing. Like every single one of them. They all had on these denimy shirts with ...
Starting Spanish Lessons
... man. In the following years more and more villagers followed, until by 1985 the entire village was living in exile and Todos Santos was a virtual ghost town with the chickens and sheep that had been left behind roaming the cobblestones. Only since the ...
Todos Santos - Where Mayan Culture Lives
There are few places in Guatemala where you can experience the Mayan culture the way you can in Todos Santos. Here, their traditional costume is worn, the women still spend months weaving the elaborate collars for their husbands shirts, tortillas are ...
Pulgas
... and a particle whenever they try to look for it, they are talking about the habits of bedbugs. For the first week in Todos Santos I slept in a sleeping bag liner, wrapping myself cocoon-like within it and burrowing into the center of the bed, hoping ...
So long and thanks for all the shoes - part 3
"The hard day" according to Jackie our guide. He wasn´t lying. We woke up at 4:30 to the sound of Jakies alarm to which Bennit declares "I´m tired Jackie" so we all fall asleep for another hour. When we do finally wake up we put on our wet socks and ...
So long and thanks for all the shoes - part 4
... Santos is a indigionus market town in which they have a particular type of dress. Adam and Bennit go to a tailor to get "Todo Santos Pants". Trousers to the Brits among us. The final scores: Steph 17 Adam 16 Bennit 15 ...
Todos Santos
... ) then back down into TS. The road was only opened in the early 80's, until then they led a secluded existence. Todos Santos (All Saints)(altitude 2470m) is in the Cuchumatanes mountains. The Mama-speaking Todos Santeros maintain a traditional way of ...
Stuck at the border.
... nbsp; We arrived at the border at 9pm, hoping to cross the border and pick up a bus to get us further south into Guatemala. Unfortunately, Clara had extended her visa to Mexico for 90 days when she entered which meant she had to pay extra...which ...
Death in Todos Santos
... of indigenous Guatemala, their relatives gathering from far away to finally lay them to rest after so many years. But the cemetery of Todos Santos, the old man tells me, is facing the same problem that the land is facing. Too many people are ...
A Day in the Life of a Chicken Bus
... ride from San Marcos on Lago Atitlan, to Panajachel, on the first leg of my journey to a village called Todos Santos Cuchumatan, in the Western highlands of Guatemala. After an hour or so of debating whether to take a $40 tourist bus to Todos, we opted ...
What Really Goes on in a Small Town
... them drink themselves to death by pouring Quetzalteca and the blood of a black rooster on a fire, and the image of the patron saint of Todos Santos that took on human form and walked out of the church one day. Yet it seems like such a normal place ...
La Torre
... have for thousands of years. It is sold discreetly at most every tiny shop and market stand that dot the landscape around Todos Santos. The guaro has a nice rum taste although weaker, without the gasoline after-bite that follows. A group of farmers ...
In Todos Santos
... . We found out yesterday that our front car wheel is bent so I don't know if we're ever going to get out of this place. Todos Santos had a very bad drinking, vandalism and theft problem, so two months ago the town came up with the idea of a town curfew. ...
Pinche piojos
... isn't what I thought Mexico was like...) Coming from the United States, French bakeries in Mexico are not exciting. Coming from Guatemala, they are worthy of squeals of delight. Loreli and I practically skipped through the town, not a bit selfconcious of ...
The Village People
... that plays the local xylophonish music its no wonder. The language school has put on a couple of old documentaries that show the Todos Santos people in the 70s and in the 80s after the civil war. Its interesting to see how the village has changed but ...
Todos Santos the Second
... We have been told that there are 12 million people in Guatemala, however 1 million of those live in the US. Every family in Todos Santos has someone who is or has been in the States. This speaks to the pitiful wages that are paid to the working ...
Todos Santos
... language schools are looking for coordinators if you are interested in some time in the cool mountains of Guatemala. There are so many similarities between Todos Santos and Hazelton, it makes one wonder why you would need to leave the north to do ...
The Wildest Horse Race In The World
We were very excited to be heading up to Todos Santos for the drunken horse race and weren´t quite sure what we were getting ourselves in for. Our Adrenalis Tours shuttle left at 6:00am and low and behold, it was full of chirpy Americans dressed ...
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