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Waterfalls In Guatemala

2 noviembre, 2015 admin 312Views

Waterfalls in Guatemala!

The beauty and nature of Guatemala has been hided from the world during all its history. Nevertheless, over time, the passionate interest of travelers to explorer their own country and explorer new counties has helped in the process to discover that beauty has been saved during thousands of years; this is the case of Waterfalls La Igualdad.

La Igualdad is a community located on the slopes of the Tajumulco volcano, this community is surrounded by forest, a unique flora and fauna in the region and a weather that makes mystic the trek to arrive the waterfalls that have an hight about 187 meters, this is considered one of the highest, not only in Guatemala but in Central America.

All area of this community was owner as a private property, a landowner farm in the past, that over time was given to the community with the proposed that all produced by the community was a benefit to the community not only for one person. This people have been producing coffee as a principal product, it means the community does a hard labour with all the process coffee production require.

Over time, the creativity of people woke up, they realized they owned a natural wealth that was hidden and it can give them a best benefits, opportunities and development, instead of coffee production.

Social tourism projects like this have been developing all over the country with a similar histories.

Because of the incentive of community itself, they started the construction of path where visitor can go to arrive where the waterfalls are located, and because of to be so close to the volcano, they can find vein in the area, those ones have been used in the best way, the community constructed pools to capture the hot springs and they put together the concept of eco-tourism and social tourism.

Social tourism because in order to do this trek is necessary the connection between the tour operator and the representatives of the community.

Travel & Health Guatemala gives you this connection, transportation and guides from Xela together the recommendation to enjoy this community. But arriving the community, they becomes into our guides. The principal objective of Social tourism is that the community get the principal benefit. Working together with the tour operator, including the people as a representatives of the community in order to show the world its culture, ecology, tradition and life, without affect negatively; it means, the culture is not going change, we are not going to destroy the ecology and we are not going to disturb its lifestyle.

For ending, we can enjoy a bath considered as a therapeutic or medical treatment because of the properties of the hot springs of volcano, making of this trip a natural paradise.

Did you know this about Guatemala?

10 septiembre, 2015 admin 163Views 6Comments

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.

We organize everything and will be with you throughout your adventure in order to make sure you have the best time possible. Transportation, accommodation, Guatemalan food, Spanish, activities for children, trips for their parents and a baby-sitter if you need it.

What are you waiting for?

Guatemala and T&H Guatemala are waiting for you….

Petén, Guatemala — Tikal National Park encompasses 575 square kilometres of jungle and thousands of ruined structures.

Family trip! — A colonial City full of history!

Coffee lovers. — A cup of coffee in the morning may pack more than just an energy boost.

Waterfalls — A wonderful place full of nature and peace.

Vanushka, la gitana que murió de amor. || Vanushka, the gypsy who dead of love.

31 agosto, 2015 admin 205Views 3Comments

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…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukmyv27B0PI

Chichicastenango, a colorful market! || Chichicastenango, a colorful market!

20 julio, 2015 admin 244Views

Chichicastenango is one of the most common places to visit in Guatemala. And, there is a really good reasons to do that, actually is more than one reason….

Market day — Market in Guatemala is full of colors…

Let me tell you that Chichicastenango has the lucky to have the Guatemala’s largest and most colorful indigenous market. Stalls and blankets are set up on the plaza and around streets; also is easy to find fruits, vegetables,cloth, all kind of textiles and much much more…
Is easy to arrive to Chichicastenango, we are going to leave from Quetzaltenango in the bus, and approximately two and a half hours is going to take us to arrive this wonderful market.
You will see the big difference between other cities to this marvellous mayan town.
Following the history of Guatemala, in Chichicastenango you can see the fusion between mayan religion and catholicism. History says when the conquistadors came to Guatemala, they tried to force indigenas to change their religion, so they destroy their altars to construct a church. But mayan people was convinced to the mayan religion and they, even in a catholic church, they get into the church and trust on their Gods and they ask, inside catholic church, for their familia, agriculture, nature and more.
All things we cannot see in Quetzaltenango, Catholicism is stronger and people forget and stoped believing in mayan culture as was in the past.

Still we recomend you, if you are planing to visit Guatemala, you would contact us to organice all you trip or you should take Spanish Classes to know some Spanish before arriving here.

Just clic on this «Yessika Spanish On-line»

Trek to Chicabal Lagoon

3 julio, 2015 admin 117Views

As always we say, Guatemala has a lot of culture, traditions and nature to share with people from all over the world. But Quetzaltenango, our second more important city in the country has a lot of nature and culture on each small village, so now we have the trek to “Chicabal Lagoon” . This is a volcano but in the crater you will see a lagoon, this is magic and the mysticism.

I you like to have a contact with nature, this is the perfect “little volcano” you can climb, you can use this as a practice, because this is no to hard to climb, so is prefect for the first time to climb a mountain or volcano.

Travel & health is now traveling to this wonderful volcano, all surrounding areas are full of forest and has a special touch of mysticism, because this reserve is us for ceremonial activities by the Mayan culture.

Once we arrived to “San Martin Chile Verde” start the adventure, this little town is door to the volcano, we walk around three hour (always depending on the people) now we are traveling with a old man with his daughter and they want to enjoy the nature, forest, birds etc.. So, we decide to walk slowly but people can arrive to the lagoon in two hours.

Eco tourism in Guatemala — Guatemala is full of nature and culture!

When you arrive to Chicabal lagoon you will reach the most peaceful place you can reach,. This is important; in the lagoon is not allowed to touch the water, to swim or to take a bath, because this area is sacred, Mayan people comes here to make ceremonies to pray for raining, , nature, peace, agriculture etc… so, if you are in contact with the water of the lagoon something bad is going to happen to you ( is the history) but, is important to respect all beliefs and this religion is carefully with nature.

For sure, this trek is full of unforgettable moments for us and for our friend who are join us at the agency, Travel & Health is located on Quetzaltenango, interior Entremundos Building. Here we have all information about our treks to different places, communities and reserves around Quetzaltenango and all Guatemala.

We try to focus on discover routs or paths that few people know, this is why we want you to join us on our great adventure.