Welcome to the Travel Archives of Connected Horizons! Read our articles, guides and experiences from the time we spent in Guatemala!
Wandering around Guatemala for about a month was a great experience full of opportunities to bring memories back home through the viewfinder. From the huge metropolis of Guatemala City to the little lakeside towns of lake Atitlan, every corner was a street-photography heaven. Don’t like street-photography? Well, just hike a couple of hours up to…
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Guatemala is a country that among others in Central America is very budget-friendly to travellers, especially backpackers. Finding cheap accomodation, food and transport can be easily accomplished as long as you stick to locals places instead of touristy areas often named “international” zones. Here follows a collection of our budget experience during our one-month roadtrip…
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After celebrating a beautiful New Year’s Eve in Antigua and having explored the North of the country, we finally end up in the capital of Guatemala. The choice of leaving it last on our trip was due to the fact that all buses headed to El Salvador could only be taken there and hence why…
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Finishing off our last day in Belize with a visit to Caracol was simply great but this morning its time to move on: we’re ready to cross into Guatemala! After taking a ride back to San Ignacio from Santa Familia (the place where we were volunteering on workaway), getting a bus to the border with…
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Amazingly enough in a huge metropolis like Guatemala City there seems to be a lack of information on how to get a bus from Zona 1 to Lake Atitlan (aka Panajachel). Whereas anybody could get plenty of directions, times and such for an infinite number of tour companies that organise shuttles/minivan (not quite a budget…
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Today we leave Quetzaltenango with an early morning bus heading to Guate City: our destination is Antigua Guatemala! To get there we hop down in Chimaltenango and after having a bite we walk another 50m to the other bus station from which we can finally get a direct bus to Antigua. Once in Antigua we…
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This year we’re spending the Christmas holidays at the huge and beautiful Lake Atitlan in Guatemala! From the beginning everything seems like its going the right way and even the bus ride there gifts us amazing landscapes and views over the high volcanoes surrounding the lakes. Crazy! We arrive in Panajachel and from there we…
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Today we have a very interesting plan: we’re going to hike theSanta María volcano from Quetzaltenango, city also known as Xela. From the top, we heard you can overlook a smaller volcano called Santiaguito which sometimes during the day erupts for a short time. Hopefully we’ll be lucky enough to see it in action! The…
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After yesterday’s days of ruins, today we’re looking forward to spend some time in a city. Thanks to a kind driver, we manage to leave Tikal with the same colectivo that just two days ago brought us here. The drive its shorter and smoother than expected and in less than two hours we find ourselves…
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Waking up at 7.30am in the huge (party) hostel of Los Amigos in Flores and trying not to make too much noise can be quite challenging! But we haven’t got much of a chance today, with the long trip to Coban waiting ahead of us the only option is to hop on a busito as…
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The “Nariz del Indio” is one of the unmissable hikes to do around the area of Lake Atitlan (Guatemala). Finding information about the hike seems to be pretty difficult if planning to go on your own and not through a trekking agency (of which theres plenty) but don’t you worry, chances are that Google Maps…
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