Guatemala travel

How cheap is Guatemala? What are the prices like for travelers? Well, that depends a lot on how you travel. As a backpacker eating at market stalls and taking the gussied-up school buses that ply the back roads, sharing your sleeping quarters with strangers, you could probably get by for $15-$20 a person traveling through …

Editor’s note: This snapshot from a year of travel back in 2015 is far from evergreen and isn’t very relevant to readers anymore. I’m leaving it up though because it links to some cool things I wrote throughout the year and highlights visits to places worth visiting. I’ve moved back to Mexico since and am …

The Central American country of Guatemala is definitely one of the The World’s Cheapest Destinations and since the backpackers have kept coming even when moneyed tourists have gotten spooked, the chilled-out gathering spot of Lake Atitlan is still a magnet for budget travelers. The top nationality in San Pedro when I was there this week …

Quetzaltenango, in Guatemala, has a name that seems ready for tales of exotic travels and interesting experiences. I didn’t have any pre-set expectations before I got there, but I did expect it to at least be a place worth hanging around for a few days. Well…not really. As I’ve found in so many places round …

Often when I visit a country I take a stroll through a typical supermarket looking for the screaming bargains. What’s a deal here? I’m writing this while traveling through Guatemala, which is certainly one of the cheapest places to travel and one of the cheapest places to live. Here’s what I picked up yesterday in …