Guatemala – Alex In Wanderland https://www.alexinwanderland.com Fri, 01 Feb 2019 03:40:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Central America Tops and Flops https://www.alexinwanderland.com/central-america-tops-flops/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=central-america-tops-flops https://www.alexinwanderland.com/central-america-tops-flops/#comments Fri, 27 May 2016 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=35986 This time last year, I was flying back to the USA after four months spent in one of my favorite pockets of planet earth: Central America. Over the course of five different trips, I’ve now been lucky enough to visit each of the seven countries making up this sub-continent — some of them multiple times! A […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/central-america-tops-flops/feed/ 73 The Great Escape: Month 47 Roundup https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-month-47-roundup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-great-escape-month-47-roundup https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-month-47-roundup/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2015 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=36860 Getting back on my roundup game! Thanks for putting up with my very tardy monthly wrap-ups. These are some of the juiciest, most comprehensive and most detail-filled posts I write, and hence, they take me a long time to put together. Hope you don’t mind that they come served like fine wine… well-aged and with a […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-month-47-roundup/feed/ 51 Newsflash: Guatemala City Doesn’t Suck https://www.alexinwanderland.com/guatemala-city-doesnt-suck/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=guatemala-city-doesnt-suck https://www.alexinwanderland.com/guatemala-city-doesnt-suck/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2015 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=35980 This might be the post I’ve been most excited to write from my entire six weeks in Guatemala — it’s also, fittingly, the last, which is usually what the best is saved for. Why am I so animated over this one? Well, Guatemala City doesn’t have much of a reputation among travelers. Most, in fact, don’t […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/guatemala-city-doesnt-suck/feed/ 109 Travel Confession: I Was Underwhelmed By Semuc Champey https://www.alexinwanderland.com/underwhelmed-by-semuc-champey/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=underwhelmed-by-semuc-champey https://www.alexinwanderland.com/underwhelmed-by-semuc-champey/#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2015 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=35978 I remember the first time I heard about a magical place called Semuc Champey. I was literally on the other side of the world, in an idyllic swimming hole in Laos, and a Scandinavian girl I’d met on the road was telling me about a place she’d been that was even more beautiful, even more pristine, […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/underwhelmed-by-semuc-champey/feed/ 78 Easing Back In: Traveling East Guatemala https://www.alexinwanderland.com/east-guatemala-livingston-rio-dulce/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=east-guatemala-livingston-rio-dulce https://www.alexinwanderland.com/east-guatemala-livingston-rio-dulce/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2015 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=35979 With my two weeks in Belize up and over, it suddenly felt like I was in the home stretch of my Central America trip. With exactly three weeks left before my flight from Roatán to the Cayman Islands, it was time to sit down and plot a route that would eventually get me to that departure […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/east-guatemala-livingston-rio-dulce/feed/ 50 The Great Escape: Month 46 Roundup https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-month-46-roundup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-great-escape-month-46-roundup https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-month-46-roundup/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2015 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=35925 Month 46 was dedicated entirely to Guatemala, as I slowly worked my way from El Salvador toward the Belizean border. Guatemala was the last Central American country I had yet to visit, and probably one of the most anticipated arrivals. Perhaps that’s too much for a place to live up to, as I don’t gush about […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/the-great-escape-month-46-roundup/feed/ 67 Waking Up With The Jungle at Tikal https://www.alexinwanderland.com/waking-up-with-the-jungle-at-tikal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=waking-up-with-the-jungle-at-tikal https://www.alexinwanderland.com/waking-up-with-the-jungle-at-tikal/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2015 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=35918 Stepping off the bus that I’d called home for the past ten hours, I stopped for a moment to stretch and reflect on my coast-to-coast journey. A few days before, I’d played in the black sand of a beach on the Southwest coast of Guatemala. After stops in both Antigua and Guatemala City, I hopped the […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/waking-up-with-the-jungle-at-tikal/feed/ 61 Memories of Monterrico https://www.alexinwanderland.com/monterrico/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=monterrico https://www.alexinwanderland.com/monterrico/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=35863 Close your eyes and picture a beautiful beach. A hundred people will have a hundred different visions of exactly what that paradise would look like. One thing the majority will probably have in common? Silky white sand. And believe me, I love those picture perfect paradises as much as the next daydreamer. But over the years, […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/monterrico/feed/ 41 Surfacing Among Volcanoes: Scuba Diving in Lake Atitlán https://www.alexinwanderland.com/scuba-diving-in-lake-atitlan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scuba-diving-in-lake-atitlan https://www.alexinwanderland.com/scuba-diving-in-lake-atitlan/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=35821 I might have taken a laid back approach to my week in Lake Atitlán, but there are plenty adventure opportunities on hand for those who want to be a bit more active while visiting this high altitude Guatemalan highlight — paragliding off a volcano, hiking up a volcano, or diving below a volcano all come to […]
 
]]> https://www.alexinwanderland.com/scuba-diving-in-lake-atitlan/feed/ 62 Inspiration Around Lake Atitlán https://www.alexinwanderland.com/inspiration-around-lake-atitlan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=inspiration-around-lake-atitlan https://www.alexinwanderland.com/inspiration-around-lake-atitlan/#comments Sun, 14 Jun 2015 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.alexinwanderland.com/?p=35358 I was quick to admit that Guatemala just wasn’t my jam. Yet there was one destination on my itinerary there that stopped me in my tracks, a place that made me nod my head and say, oh yes, yup, indeed I see it now — this is what everyone is going on about. And that place […]
 
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