Country Info
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Quetzal (GTQ)
- Currency
- 12,974,361
- Population
- GT
- Country Code
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Guatemala
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Touristy markets and mystical churches
This is a top pick! Up and out for our 6am bus to Chichi (as the locals call it) for the big Sunday market (is also on Thurs) takes a few hours to get there again across more hills and past lush green landscape. We arrive in Chichi and are due to meet back at 1400 for our ...
Back in Guate
This is a top pick! ... toilet. Again we had a thorough search by the Salvadorian officials before getting back on the road and arriving in Guate at midday. Guatemala City is a sprawling mess and not a particularly nice place to stay. At the bus depot we had no where to ...
Monterrico and Parque Hawaii
This is a top pick! Parque Hawaii is in the middle of nowhere. To be more precise, Parque Hawaii is about 7 km from the middle of nowhere. Monterrico is in the middle of nowhere. We decided to take the more reliable and much more expensive tourist shuttle ...
Cool Pools and Bat Cave: Lanquin, Guatemala
This is a top pick! After a glorious week and a half of homestaying in Coban, we headed off to Lanquin and then to Semuc Champey. Lanquin is only about 50km form Coban and is a beautiful windy road that lets you look out onto neverending green mountains and also ...
Paid to Play Episode 7: Down the Rio Dulce
This is a top pick! Paid to Play Episode 7: the one about the cool trip down the Rio Dulce river to Livingston and Guatemala's little known Caribbean coast. Guatemala isn't well known for it's Caribbean coast. The city of Livingston is at best a rather ...
Saying good bye to Lago Atitlan
This is a top pick! Saturday the 28th we woke at 4:45am to get ready for our hike up Volcan San Pedro. Met our guide outside our place and started up the hill. We had a 40 minute walk to the entrance station during which Casey was not looking so good. But she pushed on ...
Day trip to Pelmar Viejo
This is a top pick! ... the glass of the back door and distorted in a way that says "this is painful" and "get me the hell out of here". In Guatemala, however, thereīs always room for 2 more. There were 4 of us though and we decided to hitch hike. In minutes, we were in a pick ...
Destiny
This is a top pick! A drop of water falls from the sky on top of a mountain. The mountain collects it along with others and according to the terrain, streams of water are created and later rivers come to life. The cause of all this movement is ...
Guatemala - Heather Climbs 50th Birthday Volcano!
This is a top pick! ... of the world with volcanic eruptions happening and the sun beginning to set. As we slid back down the mountain we were very proud of our efforts and continue to be amazed at the power of nature. Footnote: Antigua Guatemala is UNESCO World Heritage ...
Antigua -
This is a top pick! ... over, as our trip on the Racsa flight lasted only one hour and was without incident. It was when we touched down in Guatemala City that we realised something was amiss... We had assumed that we would be deposited at the main terminal of the capital, ...
Flores & Tikal.
This is a top pick! ... or so required to see the most important ruins. Some of the climbs included very high rickety ladders. Time to leave Guatemala behind. The traditional Mayan people are just lovely. They are small people, gentle, caring with colourful clothes. They never ...
Santiago, Santa Cruz, San Marcos, Pana, San Juan..
This is a top pick! ... week before Easter. Also a truly tough crowd of indigenous folk who kicked out the military before any other village in Guatemala during the civil war and a boy following me around saying in English "that ice cream is for me!?" I ...
Oot in the sticks in Guatemally
This is a top pick! ... it by now what wi having me as the owners! So from Coban, caught another couple of teeth shattering pickups to Semuc Champey. Guatemala really could rewrite the 7 wonders of the world with these places. It was formed over 1000's of years to make a ...
Spewnwalking
This is a top pick! I just recieved this group email from the American burd I was travelling with in Antigua -classic! __________________________________________________________________ Tom, the guy my age traveling S. America for 2 years, from Scotland whom I've been ...
Spanish School Part 2: Quetzaltenengo, Guat
This is a top pick! ... beliefs, Santo Simon. There are only 4 families in Guatemala that have this Idol in their homes, scattered all around Guatemala. There is nothing physically written about the saint, it is all story and history by word of mouth. But, as ...
Volcanic Hangovers
This is a top pick! Afternoon all, Finished my Spanish at the end of last week, was pretty good all in all, and I suppose I can get by now... (Eeak!) The criac in Antigua was unbeatable though. What with working in the Irish bar and being out every other night on the ...
Which way to Way-Way: Huehuetenango
This is a top pick! ... a ton to do in this area so we'd rather take off and spend more time elsewhere. We are heading to Coban next via Guatemala City. Coban itself is only 142km from Huehuetenango, but it is a 3 DAY DRIVE due to the transfers and dirt road ...
The last of our real adventures - for a while...
This is a top pick! ... but he disappeared into thin air behind the doors of a brothel, when Kev went in he was nowhere to be seen. Thankfully, Guatemala isnīt all like this and itīs been really quite nice. We crossed the border from Honduras on November 22nd after a ...
Saving the turtles one at a time
This is a top pick! Monterrico, on the Pacific coast of Guatemala, has the good fortune of being protected by an offshore sand shelf. This shelf holds off the rain and provides for some spectacular lightning displays from the beach. I had pulled Erin from dinner to come ...
And now a rash, just for show!!!
This is a top pick! And what a rash it is. Itīs nice and white, bumpy and generally looks like little tiny blisters all over my skin. Yummy!! However, Iīm feeling mostly better today, so thatīs what really counts. This morning I wandered around Antigua - what a ...
Flowing lava and small children donīt mix!!
This is a top pick! ... then went out with the Aussies for lunch and to mail a package home. The mailing process took about an hour....seems standard for Guatemala time. haha. But Iīm glad that itīs gone and should make it home safely! Now I have more room to shop. hehe. ...
Livingston
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Livingston in our entry from Antigua, Guatemala entitled 'The Last of Our Real Adventures - For a While......'. Cheers, K & ...
Our days on the lake
This is a top pick! ... ; For the first time we were in a crowded place. The vast majority were Israelis. It appears that Guatemala is a tourist destination for Israelis during these two months with all of the Jewish holidays. Strange. We ...
Back to school, Guatemalan style
This is a top pick! We got to Lago Atitlan via 3 chicken buses and one chicken boat on Sunday afternoon the 22nd. The boat from Panajachel to San Pedro was very bumpy as the wind was making waves on the lake. Lago Atitlan is in the crater of a huge volcano, think Crater ...
la iguana perdida
This is a top pick! Santa Cruz; Santa Cruz....what to say... Lake Atilan is a giant, spent volcano - filled. Some 15 kms long and 10 kms wide, there are plenty of different villages and travellers hangouts lining the rim. Our mates, Charlotte and James, stayed/worked ...
Eastern Guatemala
This is a top pick! ... accountant from Idaho, we felt our odds of him using us as drug trafficking "mules" was pretty low. (Key facts about Guatemala: the largest Central American country population wise with about 14 million people, 44 percent of whom are Mayan. About the ...
Rebel base on Yavin IV: Flores, Guatemala
This is a top pick! ... that we tried to get out of Flores as quick as possible, it was expensive (in relation to most of Guatemala). Today (Friday) we then headed for Dangriga in Belize via Belmopan. We bought our ticket from Flores to ...
Travel scholarship
This is a top pick! http://journals.worldnomads.com/scholarships/post/27876.aspx ...
Chichi - the craziest place on earth?
This is a top pick! Hello all! Yesterday we went directly from Santiago to Chichicastananga via Panajachel. Since our other experience with the chicken bus was so amazing, we decided to try it again, and, other than the brief concern that we had dropped the ...