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Cruise Day at Santo Tomás

Take one sleepy town. Turn it into Guatemala's largest commercial port. Make it the headquarters of the country's navy. Then build a cruise
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Dance the Punta

You won't quite be able to put your finger on what it is: It's not reggae. It's not salsa. It's not hip-hop. But the punta resembles all three
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The Banana Republic

From the docks in Puerto Barrios gigantic freight-liners leave daily with enormous crates of bananas stacked like children's blocks. Groups
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The Banana Trilogy

Although Rigoberta Menchú gets most of the attention as Guatemala's Nobel Prize laureate, the country has another in novelist, diplomat, and
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The Black Christ

Quick! Name Guatemala’s most-visited destination. Antigua? Chichicastenango? Tikal? Even if it’s not on your itinerary, an estimated one million
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The Garífuna

Guatemala's Atlantic coast presents a different ethnic makeup than the rest of the country. It has a substantial percentage of mixed indigenous
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Top Reasons to Go

Cruise through a canyon: A boat trip up or down the canyoned Río Dulce is Guatemala’s signature eco-excursion. Groove to the punta: Toto

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