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Guapo Guatemala – Chiabal, Laguna Magdalena & Chajul, Sierra de las Cuchumatanes
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 8 November 2011
North of Huehuetenango the Sierra de las Cuchumatanes mountains, the highest non-volcanic range in Central America, rise into the sky. This spectacular bit of Guatemala is home to high altitude plateaus, tiny windswept villages and a naturally infinity-edged lake that almost no one visits.The Cuchumatanes are also home to two new community tourism guest houses that get you into the terrain and into the culture. Chiabal The blink-and-you’ll-miss-it village of Chiabal is perched on a wide, sheep-speckled plateau at nearly 11,000 feet.
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Drunken Horse Racing – Sierra de los Cuchumatanes, Guatemala
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 2 November 2011
Though we missed the world famous annual drunken horse racing in Todos Santos local guide Rigoberto Pablo Cruz (rigoguiadeturismo@yahoo (dot) com, good English spoken) knew that locals in a nearby town were putting on a smaller race so we jumped in the truck and drove about an hour out of Todos Santos, climbing up to more than 11,000 feet (3,352 meters) into the Sierra de los Cuchumatanes mountains. A soft dirt straight-away about an eighth of a mile long had been cleared through the center of the tiny, dusty town where, weirdly, there was a porta-potty in front of nearly every house.
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Party Town – Todos Santos, Guatemala
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 31 October 2011
Todos Santos Cuchumatán (commonly called just Todos Santos) is a stronghold of some of the most spectacular traditional dress in Guatemala and living Mayan customs like using a small sweat lodge called a chuj. It’s also a town that likes to party. Their annual free-for-all drunken horse race, held on November 1, typically involves dozens of riders all of whom are too drunk to walk let alone ride a horse down a muddy road at break neck speed. A picture from this insanity is on the cover of the 2007 Lonely Planet guide to Guatemala.
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The hidden treasures of northern Huehuetenango: Laguna Brava
Blog: Nono in Guatemala - 15 September 2011
Two yearsago, I had planned a trip to hike to the Laguna Brava o Laguna Yolnajab butnever went. So when I realized it was close to the Posada where we were stayingI knew I had to go.
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The hidden treasures of northern Huehuetenango: Mayan Painting & Hoyo Cimarron
Blog: Nono in Guatemala - 15 September 2011
AroundFinca Chacula there are many beautiful places to discover than not many peoplehave to the opportunity to see while visiting Guatemala.
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Finca Chacula, rural and authentic
Blog: Nono in Guatemala - 24 August 2011
When myparents told me they were going to come for a visit in August, I startedthinking about where we should go. When I found the website of the PosadaChacula, I knew I had found the perfect place for us.
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Todos Santos makes you smile
Blog: Cogs Watch - 5 July 2010
We’re still trying to maintain a tight timeline in order to have any time at all in Europe. With this in mind, the thought of sacrificing a day to jumping between chicken buses all the way to Todos Santos, which is up near the Mexican border, was understandably put in the ‘should we or shouldn’t we?’ category. Funnily enough it was the guide books (that we sometimes give the brush) that won us over. One said Todos Santos was ‘as raw as Guatemalan village life gets’, the other said it was not to be missed. We were sold!
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Impressions of Guatemala
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 27 June 2009
My first trip to Guatemala in 2007 was extremely brief – I spent just two days there on a brief visit from Mexico to see the Mayan city of Tikal – but it remains probably my best travelling memory. Tikal is the most amazing place I’ve visited, and viewing the sun rise over the jungle [...]
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