If the mere thought of a dentist makes you thinking on how much it is going to cost to your budget, you are not alone, many of Americans and Europeans…
This is an event where we want people from different countries around the world to visit Guatemala for 12 days. In order to Spend and learn about Guatemalan culture while…
For most girls, and I have to admit that I’m one of them, a honeymoon is a special moment we dream about. And I say ‘most girls’ because each of…
The Declaration of Independence from Spain was signed on September 15th 1821. It was a meeting of nobles formed by members of the audience, city hall, church officials, the university,…
- Guatemala is the number one exporter in the world of Chinese Snow Peas to The United States.
- Guatemala was selected by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as the number one of the best ten vacation destination in the world according the cultural segmentation.
- Guatemala is the second country more efficient to produce sugar cane, and the fifth bigger exporter in the world.
- Guatemala has the biggest variety of coniferous wood, and this are native to Guatemala.
- More than a half of Guatemalan people form part of some civil organization.
- The «Cajita Feliz» (Happy Meal) started in Guatemala, spreading all over the world.
- Antigua Guatemala was cataloged as World Heritage by UNESCO in 1979.
- Guatemala is the principal provider of quality coffee to Starbucks chain.
- Guatemala is the only country in Latin America with 4 active volcanoes.
- In Guatemala are located the more important Mayan sites of Mesoamerica: Tikal, El Mirador and Cancuén.
- Manny Marroquin, recording engineer, was nominated to 3 prizes Grammy in 2004 and he won two of them.
- The Pollo Campero Restaurant in Falls Church, Virginia, has the highest sells in the USA. it sells $32.5 thousand in a day.
- Guatemala is the principal provider of wood for the Gibson´s Guitares.
- Ron Zacapa Centenario has been selected as the best rum in the world for five consecutive years.
- The shortest story of the world was written by Augusto Monterroso, The dinosaur» and won in 2000 the literary prize principe de Asturias.
I can you give you many more reasons to travel to Guatemala but I suggest you contact Travel & Health Guatemala to find out more.
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Guatemala as the same as Mexico, we celebrate the Day of the Dead… According to the history, the twilight of 31 October the spirits come in order to find their…
Vanushka, the gypsy who dead of love.
This legend started in Quetzaltenango and it is the history of a beautiful gypsy called vanushka Cárdenas , this lady arrived to Quetzaltenango with a circus from Hungary.
As says the legend, someday the governor´s son went to see the spectacle in the circus and he, immediately, was fascinated with the beauty of the gypsy and his spectacle where she tamed big animals. Usually this lady needed help from someone in the audience to conclude the act and this guy decide to be brave and he was who help the gypsy. After this strange meeting , he started visiting her many, in secret, and for the result they started and passionate love.
When they was in love, they realized their love was prohibited, that was because the governor and vanushka´s father refused.
Knowing the seriously of the relationship between them, The governor decided to send her son to Spain, and this decision was devastating to the gypsy. As the legend says, she cried and cried until his heart stopped beating. But since then and from his grave she helps people who ask her to find his/her lost love.
His grave is located in the Quetzaltenango´s cemetery and is visited for many people from all the country, usually young people who go to ask for love, all year this grave is full of flower, candles and people write over the grave for their love.
Specially in “Día de los muerto” people from a lot of places come to Quetzaltenango and visit the cemetery to bring her some flowers…
Day by day is making usual to travel with family and it is a lot of reasons to do it; for example: Parent spend almost all the day working, and…
Would you like to travel and learn Spanish? Learning while you travel, Spanish as a second language!
Spanish as a second language! I’m going to explain to you the principal ideas about learning Spanish as a second language in Guatemala and maybe it is the same in…
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