The Highlands Features

The Highlands Features

• Top Reasons to Go
  

  Blending the old and the new: The highlands mix the best of Mayan and European cultures. Although Christianity has been practiced here for 500... Read more

• Weaving Culture, Weaving History
  

  It is said that the Mayan goddess Ixchel gave the art of weaving to her people. Today's Maya descendents still make fervent use of that gift... Read more

• I, Rigoberta Menchú…Mostly
  

  In 1992 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Guatemalan writer Rigoberta Menchú, raised in the tiny highland village of San Miguel Uspantán... Read more

• The Heroes of Santiago Atitlán
  

  In this American Idol-ized world, a visit to Santiago Atitlán puts renown and heroism into true perspective.... Read more

• Drinking and Smoking with the Saints
  

  Arguably Guatemala's most curious object of veneration is the cigar-smoking, rum-swilling deity Maximón. He is still actively idolized... Read more

• Market Days in the Highlands
  

  Believe it or not, highland markets mean more than Thursday and Sunday in Chichicastenango. Most towns hold a market one or two days a week... Read more

• Dancing with the Dead
  

  Colorful cemeteries, with their turquoises and pinks, mauves and sky blues, play an integral part in the living fabric of contemporary Guatemalan... Read more