Country Info
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Quetzal (GTQ)
- Currency
- 12,974,361
- Population
- GT
- Country Code
Guatemala Slideshow
Top Hotels in Guatemala
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Hotel Pez de Oro Monte Rico
24 reviews -
Hostal Via del Lago San Pedro La Laguna
4 reviews
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Hotel Zaculeu Huehuetenango
6 reviews -
Mirador Del Lago Flores
20 reviews -
Casa D'Acuna Coban
15 reviews -
Posada Del Cristo Negro Chiquimula
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Suites Reforma Apart Hotel Guatemala City
8 reviews
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Hotel Primavera Panajachel
24 reviews
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Grand Hotel Panajachel
5 reviews
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Hotel Rio Azul Quetzaltenango
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Hotel Casa Azul Antigua Guatemala
16 reviews
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Posada Asjemenou Antigua Guatemala
9 reviews
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Hotel Restaurante Dulce y Salado Monte Rico
5 reviews
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Hotel Maria Elena San Pedro La Laguna
12 reviews
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Hotel San Luis de la Sierra Huehuetenango
1 review
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Hotel Isla De Flores
9 reviews
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Posada Don Valentino Antigua Guatemala
101 reviews
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Hotel y Restaurante El Peregrino Flores
1 review
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Real Plaza Hotel Suites Antigua Guatemala
22 reviews
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Hotel Casa Rustica Antigua Guatemala
135 reviews
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Hotel Bed & Breakfast Mi Casa Guatemala City
4 reviews
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Posada El Antano Antigua Guatemala
25 reviews
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Palacio de Dona Leonor Antigua Guatemala
52 reviews
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Hotel Casa Mia Antigua Guatemala
8 reviews
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La Casona de Antigua Antigua Guatemala
7 reviews
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Casa Encantada Antigua Guatemala
62 reviews
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Posada Belen Museo Inn Guatemala City
124 reviews
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Hotel Casa Noble Antigua Guatemala
14 reviews
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Hotel Qachoch Antigua Guatemala
5 reviews
Guatemala
Travel Blogs from Guatemala
Sinking Canoes in Central America
This is a top pick! ... still amazing though you can email from the middle of nowhere in central america. We travelled from San Cristobel to Lago Atitlan in Guatemala as a group of 12. We all meet in Magic hostel in San Cristobel. I travelled with Dan, Claire, Gabby, Olivia, ...
ticking off Tikal
This is a top pick! ... 6.00am and rounded up some more backpackers around town including 3 lads that I'd met up in the San cristobal hostel. The journey to Guatemala is all set up by the travel agents in palenque town and by the time you arrive in Flores, everybody who went to ...
Even Paradise has Cloudy Days
This is a top pick! ... from the tranquillity of the hacienda and braved the rush hour traffic and horrendous construction delays on the CA-1 to head into Guatemala City to pick up more friends arriving at the airport. Janine was coming in from Ottawa, and Sherry was arriving ...
Back to cold weather
This is a top pick! ... Shay-la). I will refer to it as Xela since it's easier to type. Xela is the second largest city in Guatemala and is relatively clean, surprisingly safe, and has all the modern conveniences of any large city including crowing roosters that compete with ...
Vuile rotzakken!
This is a top pick! The plan was to go to the Chichicastenango market today, but somebody decided to steal my wallet on the chicken bus, so I turned back to cancel my bank card and headed straight to Antigua as a night stop to go to El Salvador to go ...
San Pedro Week One
This is a top pick! It´s been just about one week since I arrived in San Pedro. Upon my arrival I checked in at the Hotel San Francisco which is a nice place to stay. Clean rooms with shared showers for Q30 a night. That is about $3.75 a night. The ...
A prisoner in my hotel room.
This is a top pick! Despite feeling quite a bit better today, I was pretty much a prisoner in my hotel room for the better part of two and a half days. On Thursday, I showed up to an hour of Spanish before having to leave...I then proceeded to sleep for 24 hours, missing a ...
And This Is How It Went
This is a top pick! On Wednesday I left Antigua and got on a bus heading towards a little town called Joyabaj. After speaking to several women I figured out that I got on the longggg bus route to Joyabaj. Learning that this would be a much longer ride than I intended ...
Todos Santos Festival
This is a top pick! After partying all night from Friday night into Saturday morning in San Pedro we collected up our bags & hangovers and headed for Todos Santos via the chicken buses. To do this we caught a bus to Xela (15q) and got off at the busy junction of Cuatro ...
Everybody smiles in ...
This is a top pick! I quickly moved to San Marcos la Laguna, also at lago Atitlan but with a completely different feel to it. It is divided in two parts by the road around the lake, the hostels, restaurants and meditation centers, in short the tourist area is located below ...
Rainforest Paridise
This is a top pick! Once in Coban we did the norm, find a hostel, find dinner, buy some groceries, and walk around town. The next morning we moved to a new hostel for a better room plus free pancake breakfast, we got that and a very annoying American who ran the hostel. One ...
Standing on the thin crust of an active volcano
This is a top pick! ... how close to the lava we were, Casey told the guide that in the states this would never be allowed. His reply was ¨In Guatemala we´re a little crazy.¨ Once back in Antigua we did some laundry, explored town for a bit and cooked a good but non filling ...
SPELUNKING - NOT JUST A FOUR LETTER WORD ANYMORE
This is a top pick! ... recommended by the Guatemalan family who shared our boat - we reflected on the incongrunous relationship between the poor villiages of Guatemala, the multi-million dollar playgrounds, the hotel for Western travellers, the bad music, and - the piece de ...
PUT THE GUATEMALA IN PYROMANIAC
This is a top pick! ... last time for a quick shot with the Uzi. A photo, that is. From Flores, we caught a flight across the country to Guatemala City and transferred promptly to Antigua. Antigua is amazing, and is unlike any other city I've ever visited in this region or ...
The last days have been spent around lake ...
This is a top pick! ... it's off to the states again to catch a flight to Peru. So it's off to Antigua for a quick look around before going to Guatemala City to catch a plane back to Miami (not too keen on Guatemala City with my few hours there before - something to do with the ...
Fog, fuentes, and fun
This is a top pick! Leaving Huehue, we took a crazy two-hour bus ride to the second-largest city in Guatemala, Quetzaltenango (more commonly known as Xela though). The bus quickly filled up with folks wearing traditional indigenous dress and it was fascinating to see the ...
Antigua
This is a top pick! ... , with a friendly bunch of people from all other the world, and a great roof terrace, it would be a waste not to. Guatemala has a reputation as quite a dangerous country, but Antigua, being the tourist capital, is very well protected. Back home, a fair ...
Antigua, Bananas, and Collectivos
This is a top pick! ... we didn't see much that interested us so after a chicken rice and salad lunch we set off towards Rio Dulce. The countryside in Guatemala is very pretty and with it being the rainy season the land is lush green. 3 collectivos later we arrived in the town ...
Gringo and Gringa arrive in Guatemala!
This is a top pick! ... from other travellers were more than the USA, so we cut our losses and headed into Guatemala - a fair bit cheaper. ************************UPDATE****************************** ****** Panajachel is known locally as Gringotenango! And for good ...
Guatemala, take two.
This is a top pick! ... and some arguing we ended up on a boat to Puerto Barrios were we got another boat to Livingston. We are now back in Guatemala although here in Livingston its hard to tell. This town has many Garifuna living here but they speak Spanish. But the culture ...
El Mirador - Mayan Lost City Trek
This is a top pick! Towards the lost city of El Mirador: El Mirador is a very old Mayan city "lost" in the Guatemalan jungle (7km from the Mexican border). It contains the highest pyramid of the Mayan Empire. The trek is 132km long and consists of a 6 days ...
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 ...
The nitty gritty Guatemalan life
This is a top pick! ... can be led so differently in such close proximity, contrasting the lifestyle just a couple hours drive away in Coban or other parts of Guatemala. Matt and I both came to the conclusion that while we felt fine for a short period time, we could never live a ...
Let the Tour de Peace Corp begin!
This is a top pick! ... run into someone she knew and we would be introduced and conversation would ensue. An all-important aspect of community in Guatemala is greetings and small talk in passing and is probably the most effective way Alleya can make connections with people. ...
A friendly reunion in Guatemala
This is a top pick! ... . Late that afternoon, we arrived in Huehue, booted off the bus in the middle of a chaotic bustling street. Bienvendidos a Guatemala! I bought a phone card to call Alleya, my good friend from college that is currently a Peace Corp volunteer stationed near ...
The tallest point in Cental America
This is a top pick! Well the early start was not all that bad. We got the rest of the food for the hike and jumped in the back of a pickup truck for a ride to the bus terminal. Here our backpacks were thrown up on top of the chicken bus and we hopped on. Even this early, ...
Small ruins but tall stelae
This is a top pick! We said goodbye to the jungle lodge today and got the boat back to Rio Dulce and then a bus to a small town called Quirigua. Got off the bus in the rain and walked through a very quiet town to find a hotel. Once settled in we headed out to the Quirigua ...
Ho, ho, ho and a bottle of rum
This is a top pick! Go to the internet, call my sister to wish her a belated happy birthday. Go to the supermarket and buy cream cheese and crackers. Discover Bacardi Gold is about 3 pound fifty a bottle. Sit on the balcony with the rum and coke. Meet a couple ...
The Wind
This is a top pick! We always assume that the wind is responsible to move things around such as dust, seeds, plastic bags... But could it be that it;s not the wind moving those things but rather an invisible force pulling them giving in turn the impression of the ...
In the Family Way
This is a top pick! ... Central America! So, in order to give credit where it is due, we must quickly mention our experience crossing from Honduras to Guatemala last week at the small border post at El Florido. We arrived quite early from Copán and found all the various ...