Guatemala Travel Guide

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With incomparable ancient ruins, graceful churches, and colorful highland markets, Guatemala is the center of the Maya heartland. This landscape is known for its expansive stretches of rain forest that hide spider monkeys, toucans, and iguanas among mahogany trees draped with mosses and rare orchids. In a matter of days you can walk the cobblestone streets of a colonial capital, take a white-water rafting trip to the Pacific coast, and explore El Petén, where the stately pyramids of Tikal rise from the steamy jungle.

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charles taylor / Shutterstock 1/15Woman, cobble streets Antigua Guatemala.

Brendan van Son / Shutterstock 2/15The Santa Catalina Arch, Antigua, Guatemala.

3/15colorful street of Antigua, Guatemala;

cleanfotos / Shutterstock 4/15GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA-JAN 3: Activity in front of the Guatemala Metropolitan Cathedral in Plaza Mayor on Jan 3, 2012. This is the main church of Guatemala City and of the Archdiocese of Guatemala.

5/15colorful street of Antigua, Guatemala;

Stefano Ember / Shutterstock 6/15Guatemala, 28 January 2014 Girl on canoe at isla de las flores on river Dulce near Livingston ;

Milosz_M / Shutterstock 7/15Semuc Champey, Lanquin, Guatemala, Central America.

Alain Lauga / Shutterstock 8/15RIO DULCE, GUATEMALA - DECEMBER 6: Children are rowing in a small boat near white lilies,at the arrival of tourists to sell them home made presents on December 6, 2013, in Rio Dulce, Guatemala.

VanHart / Shutterstock 9/15View on Lake Atitlan;

Mark Yarchoan / Shutterstock 10/15Mayan Ruins of Tikal.

sfeichtner / Shutterstock 11/15Templo II, Gran Plaza at Tikal, Guatemala.

soft_light / Shutterstock 12/15Landscape rain forest National Park in Guatemala Semuc Champey at sunset

Ilya Frankazoid / Shutterstock 13/15CHICHICASTENANGO, GUATEMALA- MAY 9: An unidentified woman sells vegetables at traditional weekly market in Chichicastenango (Chichi), Guatemala on 9 May 2013.