Oct 25th, 2011 at 2:00PM:
What destination are you dreaming of for 2012? The staff at Frommer's have just unveiled their list of top travel destinations for the coming year. Included in the list is a little something for everyone: large metropolises, secluded beach towns, colorful riverside villas, and more.
But Frommer's didn't just rely on their expert editors and author's for this years list--they also polled ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Frommer's reveals top destinations for 2012
Oct 25th, 2011 at 2:00PM:
What destination are you dreaming of for 2012? The staff at Frommer's have just unveiled their list of top travel destinations for the coming year. Included in the list is a little something for everyone: large metropolises, secluded beach towns, colorful riverside villas, and more.
But Frommer's didn't just rely on their expert editors and author's for this years list--they also polled ...Photo of the day - Cathedral dome, Antigua, Guatemala
Aug 19th, 2011 at 5:30PM:
Ponder today's Photo of the Day, by BaboMike. What looks at first glance like some sort of space-age cushion is in fact the interior of a cathedral cupola dome in Antigua, Guatemala. That this stark simplicity depicts a cupola dome seems improbable at first glance; after a sustained gaze, however, the surprise fades. What else, one wonders, looks simultaneously like itself and like something ...Photo of the day - Blue volcanoes of Guatemala
Jun 17th, 2011 at 5:00PM:
Today's Photo of the Day was taken by Flickr contributor AlphaTangoBravo. His image of volcanoes in Guatemala wrapped in the early morning's blue haze is a mesmerizing reminder of the intensity of a tropical dawn.
Submit your favorite images to the Gadling Group pool on Flickr. If you're lucky, your favorite photograph might be chosen as a future Photo of the Day. ...Latin America on a budget: Antigua, Guatemala
Apr 6th, 2011 at 11:00AM:
My first Latin America budget adventure, to Antigua, Guatemala, got off to a bad start. My flight from New York to Atlanta was cancelled due to bad weather and I was rebooked via Los Angeles. I finally arrived in Guatemala City a day late, and two days of activities suddenly needed to be compressed into one. In the spirit of the assignment, however, I didn't inflate my budget. $75 was my limit ...Latin America on a budget: How to plan a budget-friendly adventure
Apr 5th, 2011 at 11:00AM:
Latin America is one of the world's most budget-friendly regions for visitors. There are very cheap places to stay across the region--most notably across Central America--where a few dollars will get you a bed for the night and dinner.
But in a budget-friendly region like Latin America there are also huge divides in terms of quality. How do you do your research to make sure that you come up ...El Salvador: No visa required
Jan 24th, 2011 at 10:00AM:
Last week, on assignment in Guatemala and El Salvador, I took a luxury bus between Guatemala City and San Salvador. The bus company in question, Pullmantur, operates a fantastic service.
$35 got me transportation in a comfortable seat, along with breakfast (eggs, refried beans, and delicious, sweet fried plantains, as well as juice) and coffee later in the morning. There is a wi-fi ...Photo of the Day (04.17.10)
Apr 17th, 2010 at 5:30PM:
I have an unusually small head. It makes buying hats quite difficult. Hats, you see, rarely look good on me. I always look like a child wearing daddy's cap. It's embarrassing. From fedoras to Stetsons, I almost always struggle to find my size in head wear. So I can sympathize with the young man in the background of this photo taken by Flickr user ³²¹. Taken in Guatemala, his ...In the Heart of Central America: Cowboys and coffee in Copan, Honduras
Dec 5th, 2009 at 9:30AM:
Located in the northwest of Honduras, just a few miles from the Guatemalan border, the area known as Copan has a landscape of lush green rolling hills, coffee plantations and cattle ranches. This is pure cowboy country. In Copan Ruins, horses clip-clop softy over the stone streets and the jangle of spurs can be heard as men in boots, jeans and cowboy hats wander through town. A few miles ...Ultimate recyling project: Building a soda bottle classroom
Dec 3rd, 2009 at 11:35AM: What happens when Peace Corps volunteers, the non-profit organization, Hug it Forward and a bevvy of school children and teachers in Guatemala recycle plastic bottles and trash? A school classroom.
The collected bottles were stuffed with trash and used to form the walls for a classroom addition at a school in Granados, a small mountain town in the Baja Verapaz region of the country. Amazing. ...The top 9 reasons to drop everything and visit Guatemala right now
Nov 4th, 2009 at 9:00AM: If you thought you could live a regret-free life without visiting Guatemala, think again. This diminutive Central American country, smaller than the state of Louisiana, packs in enough diversity to entertain you for months. And its low, low prices mean you don't need to visit your neighborhood payday lender to afford to stay a while.
From active volcanoes to immaculate colonial cities to quite ...Lava Leering: Getting up close and personal with Volcan Pacaya in Guatemala
Aug 21st, 2009 at 11:00AM: One of the few places in the world where you can stand just inches away from blisteringly hot lava, Guatemala's Volcan Pacaya is the country's most popular and most accessible volcano. Just a ninety-minute drive from the tourist mecca of Antigua, Pacaya offers visitors the chance to roast marshmallows over glowing orange lava, witness the flowing of a long "river of lava" which was formed back in ...Amazing Destinations That Can't Be Reached By Car
Mar 25th, 2009 at 8:00AM: Modern transportation has made it extremely easy for travelers to get to just about any place in the world. Each day there are international flights that can take us to the four corners of the globe and modern roads and trains will deliver us to the best sights and monuments to be found at our destination, before whisking us back to a comfy hotel, complete with hot and cold running water, room ...The Very Best Foreign National Parks
Feb 13th, 2009 at 10:00AM: The Coalition of National Park Services Retirees (yeah, I didn't know they existed either) put out a press release yesterday listing the organizations favorite national parks from around the globe. The list was compiled by the more than 700 members of the CNPSR, who voted on their favorite places to visit while traveling abroad. Each of those members is a former employee of the U.S. National Park ...12 Amazing Crater Lakes
Feb 11th, 2009 at 9:00AM: Environmental Graffiti, the same website that brought us those amazing views from the tops of the Seven Summits last week, returns with even more great images. The subject of their latest story is the 12 Most Incredible Crater Lakes on Earth. These amazing natural wonders are created not from the impact of a meteorite, but instead they are formed when the collapsed cone of a volcano fills up with ...Photo of the Day (12.19.08)
Dec 19th, 2008 at 11:00PM:
In my ideal world, we'd all live within walking distance of a beautiful blue lake surrounded by (hopefully dormant) volcanoes. This shot from flickr user Matt Coats illustrates just what I'm talking about. Visitors to Guatemala's Lago de Atitlán are richly rewarded with stunning views like this one (more here) and that's part of the reason why I'm spending my winter break backpacking ...Hundreds killed after villagers drink from Nalgene bottles
Apr 1st, 2008 at 10:00AM: UPDATE: This was an April Fool's post and bears no semblance to reality. In a small Guatemalan town one hundred miles north of Guatemala City, a mass grave lies just outside of the city square. A mass grave full of people. Dead people. The town is called La Estancia de Garcia, and it's population is now 7, down from 149 earlier this year. It all started with good will visit and donation from ...Talking Travel with Javatrekker Dean Cycon
Oct 24th, 2007 at 7:30AM: Dean Cycon is an activist and entrepreneur who has been working with indigenous communities in the coffeelands for over twenty years. His all-organic, all-Fair Trade, all-kosher coffee roaster company, Dean's Beans, follows sustainable business principals and is a recognized industry leader in its' commitment to Fair Trade. According to Cycon, 99 percent of people involved in the coffee economy ...One for the Road: Moon Guatemala
Oct 9th, 2007 at 11:10AM: Has Grant's alert about cheap fares to Guatemala got ya thinking about planning a spontaneous getaway? Or maybe you want to expand your travels beyond Guatemala City and the old capital of Antiqua and spend a week or more exploring the scenic wonders of this magical country? Consider picking up a copy of Moon's guide to Guatemala to throw in your pack. The second edition of this handy guide has ...Detour Worth Making: "Agua Caliente," The World's Only Hot Waterfall
Mar 12th, 2007 at 3:40PM: Believe it or not, Guatemala is home to the world's only hot waterfall. Known as "Agua Caliente," the steaming waters from a thermal spring bubbling into the Rio Dulce pour over the falls into a cool pond below. Surrounded by foliage and ancient pocked rocks, Agua Caliente looks like a scene from a coming-of-age movie.
As if the anomaly of standing in cool waters as hot waters pour over you ...
