Xela to Lake Atitlan 3-Day Trek
One of the best experiences you can have traveling in Guatemala is the 3-day trek with Quetzal Trekkers from Xela to Lake Atitlan.
This epic trek covers around 45 km and passes through some incredible landscapes. Sleep in remote villages en route to the famous lake and get to know more about the history and culture of Guatemala. Best of all, it's all for a good cause.
Quetzal Trekkers is a non-profit that provides education, housing, and social support to disadvantaged children in the city of Xela.
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CENTRAL AMERICA BACKPACKING TRIP | Mexico, Belize & Guatemala - Trailer
I went solo backpacking around Central America for 6 weeks, travelling through Mexico, Belize and Guatemala.
This 3 part documentary series shows the entire backpacking experience.
From the fun activities, beautiful sites, crazy parties, to the exhausting journeys and the good, bad and ugly hostels.
Flying into Cancun, Mexico, I made my way to Tulum to check out the cenotes. Then chilled out at the beautiful Lake Bacalar before crossing the border into Belize.
Caye Caulker island was a great place to chill and party, as well as do some incredible snorkelling. From here I took a 3 day island-hopping boat tour with Ragamuffin tours along the Belize Barrier Reef.
Heading inland I went to San Ignacio, exploring the Caracol ruins by jeep. Then I crossed the border into Guatemala, staying in the beautiful town of Flores to visit the ancient Mayan ruins of Tikal.
Next stop was the beautiful Semuc Champey, stunning waterfalls in the jungle-filled mountains. Then I went to Antigua and got to roast some marsh-mellows on Pacaya volcano.
I then did a 3 day trek from Xela to Lake Atitlan, hiking through cloud forests, corn fields, small villages and staying with local families.
At Lake Atitlan I got to try out horse-riding for the first time before finishing up my trip at El Paredon on the Pacific Coast.
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Through these films I want you - the audience - to escape and come on the journey with me, and then be inspired to start an adventure of your own.
In between my travels I’m based in London, UK where I work as a freelance video editor.
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Un peruano visita el Puerto de San Juan la laguna en Guatemala
Bienvenid@s al canal ¡SUSCRÍBETE! ????
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San Juan La Laguna (San Juan: en honor a su santo patrono San Juan Bautista; «La Laguna»: por estar «próximo al Lago de Atitlán»), es un municipio del departamento de Sololá, en la República de Guatemala; que está en el lado suroccidental del lago Atitlán. La cabecera municipal se encuentra rodeado por cerros: cerro de Las Cristalinas, cerro Kyaq Aaba'aj, cerro Kajnom, es la parte donde se han establecido indígenas tz'utujiles. Tiene tres aldeas en la parte alta: Palestina, Panyebar y Pasajquim que son indígenas mayas k'iches.
Durante la época colonial fue parte de la encomienda de Atitlán, la que estaba a cargo de los descendientes del conquistador Sancho de Barahona.4a Después de la Independencia de Centroamérica en 1821, estuvo en el extenso departamento de Sololá/Huehuetenango,6 y en 1838 fue parte del efímero Estado de Los Altos hasta que este fue reincorporado al Estado de Guatemala por el general conservador Rafael Carrera en 1840.7 Luego del triunfo de la Reforma Liberal de 1871, cuando dicho departamento fue reducido considerablemente por la creación del departamento de Quiché el 12 de agosto de 1872, fue asignado al departamento de Sololá.8
En el siglo xxi, el huracán Stan azotó Guatemala como huracán de categoría I y provocó considerables daños en el municipio.
Nombre en castellano
Muchos de los nombres de los municipios y poblados de Guatemala constan de dos partes: el nombre del santo católico que se venera el día en que fueron fundados y una descripción con raíz náhuatl; esto se debe a que las tropas que invadieron la región en la década de 1520 al mando de Pedro de Alvarado estaban compuestas por soldados españoles y por indígenas tlaxcaltecas y cholultecas.10 El topónimo «San Juan La Laguna» se confirió en honor a San Juan y del hecho de que el poblado está geográficamente próximo al Lago de Atitlán,11 ya que al igual que los otros municipios que tienen el mismo nombre, a partir de 1643 se llaman así porque el visitador Antonio Lara habría ordenado que todos los apellidos indígenas y los lugares geográficos fueran castellanizados.12
Nombre en tz'utujil
Según los Anales de los Cakchiqueles (Memorial de Sololá) se llama Xe' Kuku' Juyu', frase que proviene de las raíces idioma maya tz'utujil Xe' (español: «debajo», Kuku' (español: «tinaja») y Juyu' (español: «cerro o montaña») y significa «debajo del Cerro Tinaja». Actualmente se le llama Xe' Kuku' Aab'aj.
Está rodeado casi completamente por municipios del departamento de Sololá, excepto al sur, en donde colinda con el departamento de Suchitepéquez:
Norte: Santa Clara La Laguna y San Pablo La Laguna
Noreste: Lago de Atitlán
Noroeste: Santa María Visitación
Este: San Pedro La Laguna
Sur: departamento de Suchitepéquez
Oeste: Santa Catarina Ixtahuacán
Kenny's 2013 Food for the Poor Guatemala Trip - Feb. 2013, Pt. 10
Here's a collection of a few short videos from our van as we traveled up and down the Guatemalan countryside. The views here were pretty typical of what we saw in most of the rural and mountain areas.
All Inclusive In Antigua | One Week In The Caribbean
Ever wanted to experience an All Inclusive trip to the Caribbean?
I spent a week on the island of Antigua, staying at the Verandah Resort.
I was invited out there by Traverse Events and Antigua & Barbuda Tourism board to experience everything the island has to offer along with nearly 40 other different travel content creators.
Together we go kayaking, scooter snorkelling, biking through St John's, watching the sunset at Shirley Heights and even became extras in a work out video for Fleur East.
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--------------------- About Karl Watson ---------------------
My name’s Karl, welcome to my channel that’s all about sharing my backpacking adventures from around the world, through fun, entertaining and honest travel documentaries.
Through these films I want you - the audience - to escape and come on the journey with me, and then be inspired to start an adventure of your own.
In between my travels I’m based in London, UK where I work as a freelance video editor.
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#AllInclusive #Caribbean #WhatCoolLooksLike
EP24 - TOP 5 things to do in MEXICO & GUATEMALA + travel planning our next adventure!
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Episode 24 - Back in the UK
We're back in the UK temporarily, so we thought we'd do a summary of our favourite experiences in both Mexico and Guatemala during our travels so far. We then pack our bags and set off for the next leg of our trip to... (you'll have to watch to find out)
Excited for what comes next!
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Hi, we're Mike & Steph. A couple from the UK who love to travel. In 2021, we quit our jobs, bought a camera, watched some youtube tutorials and set off to explore the world!
We created this channel to keep a video travel diary for ourselves, share our adventures with friends and family, and hopefully inspire people to see the world as it begins to open up again :)
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Lake Atitlan and Santa Catarina
Lake Atitlan and the village of Santa Catarina in Guatemala.
Guatemala City Highest Bridge
Hello Friends! this is Puente del Incienso, located in the heart of Guatemala City, the massive Incienso viaduct is the highest road bridge in Central America carrying 6 lanes more than 131 metres above a V-shaped ravine. The main span is 122 metres. Around and under the bridge people have built houses, a few hundred people have jumped to their deaths, even thought its fenced.
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Go to Aguateca,Sayaxché Guatemala
Sitio Arqueológico de Aguateca en Lago del Petexbatún,Guatemala.
Visita Sololá con Viaja con Nosotros
Sololá, Guatemala con Viaja con Nosotros
LAS SIERRA STA CATARINA N.L.
VISITA A LA SIERRA EL DIA 24 DE ENERO DE 2012.
Lago de Atitlán Sololá Guatemala Nuevo HD tomado en 4K
Tengo los videos en 4K si a alguién le interesa. Si te gusto el video suscribete estaré subiendo nuevos videos. Saludos. Gracias por compartir.
protest in Guatemala city
we are in guatemala city in centro there is a lot of protest in the city as we walk around just wanted to show you guys what it is like in 2021 some of the protest get crazy so be carful if you are around
Guatemala-13
Guatemala, así manejan.
More video from the drive to Xela
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BBtv WORLD: Through the eyes of the pueblo (Guatemala)
BBtv WORLD is our recently-launched series on Boing Boing tv featuring first-person views of life around the globe. This third episode in our series is the last of a three-part report I filed from a K'iche Maya community in Guatemala.
Few foreigners come to this village at 10,000 feet in the highlands. Most glimpses we have of remote indigenous communities like this are through the lenses of outsiders -- like myself. But how better to see their story than through the eyes of the people themselves?
Before I left the US for this pueblo a few weeks ago, we asked two companies that produce small, inexpensive, USB camcorders -- Pure Digital (makers of the Flip) and RCA (makers of the Small Wonder) -- to donate a few devices. I brought them to the village, so that some of the adults and young people here could explore what is possible with the tools of video storytelling in their own hands.
Today's BBtv WORLD is the result: stories shot by the K'iche people in this village. The world they see around them, through their own eyes and in their own language.
Some of what the children shot really surprised me. They caught on right away, faster even than the adults, and quickly taught each other how to record and play back video. Some of them seemed to transform into instant YouTube stars -- new alter-egos showed up out of nowhere. One boy we'd come to know as quiet and well-mannered over the course of many previous visits here shot himself throwing gang signs against the sunlight, like shadow puppets, while he walked a path that leads to a Mayan altar. Another girl who was very shy with us in person recorded video of herself making outrageous silly faces, and speaking in a boisterous, confident voice to her new handheld lens.
When I downloaded the footage from their devices, I felt as if I were seeing this place, and these people, for the first time.
More BBTV WORLD episodes:
Convite Sonido Marimba Orquestra Chichicastenango C8D Guatemala Central America
Convite Diciembre 8, 2022 en Chichicastenango, Guatemala
Guatemala Convite El Sonido
#guate #guatemala #soundsystem #marimba #chichi #chichicastenango #centralamerica #centroamerica #chapin #travel #travellog #centroamerica #diciembre8
Aldea Xojolá - Puraxxx con la matraca
Semana Santa 2013 - fisetas en Xojolá
hotel Doña Maria
Encanto, privilegio, confort, lujo, arte y mucha tradición. Estos son los djetivos que mejor definen a este emblemático hotel que regala inolvdables vistas de la Catedral con la Giralda. Un baño de historia en una casa palacio del siglo XIV. 64 habitaciones decoradas de forma distinta bajo un estilo noble antiguo y que hacen homenaje a las damas sevillanas.
Devocional de Inauguración [7 de Diciembre]
Devocional de Inauguración de la Escuela Bíblica de Vacaciones 2009 en El Pueblito, Santa Catarina Pinula, Guatemala de Iglesia Nueva Jerusalén