Quetzaltenango – commonly shortened to Xela (pronounced ‘shell-a’) – is Guatemala’s second largest city, but with only 167,000 people, it doesn’t feel big. It doesn’t have a lot of tourist sights, but it’s central area…
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“Lake Como, it seems to me, touches on the limit of the permissibly picturesque, but Atitlan is Como with additional embellishments of several immense volcanoes, it really is too much of a good thing.” (Beyond…
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Antigua Guatemala means “Old Guatemala”. The city was established by Spanish conquistadors in 1573 as the third capital of Spanish-controlled Guatemala. The first and second capitals had been abandoned due to constant Mayan uprisings and…
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Crossing the land border from Belize to Guatemala could not have been easier. We paid an exit fee and got our passports stamped at the Belize border, then walked across the short no man’s land…
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