We began in colonial Antigua, where I lived for eight months in 2011 - 12. For several of those months I lived in a charming small hotel where I was able to house tour participants. The courtyard featured roses, there was a small kitchen and the balcony granted us views of Volcano Fuego puffing in the distance. From the ancient statures of the maya to the etching of Jade, to the cathedrals, to the labrynth of the renowned museum Casa Domingo, to sampling pepion and playing flutes with vendors, the streets and cuisine of Antigua are an endless discovery in the blue skys and pleasant temperatures of this “land of eternal spring.”
I have been leading tours in Guatemala and to the Giant Kites of Sumpango since 2011. It is always a highlight of my year to witness this amazing creative community achievement of giant kites and to go behind the scenes of this festival for the Day of the Dead.
We began in colonial Antigua, where I lived for eight months in 2011 - 12. For several of those months I lived in a charming small hotel where I was able to house tour participants. The courtyard featured roses, there was a small kitchen and the balcony granted us views of Volcano Fuego puffing in the distance. From the ancient statures of the maya to the etching of Jade, to the cathedrals, to the labrynth of the renowned museum Casa Domingo, to sampling pepion and playing flutes with vendors, the streets and cuisine of Antigua are an endless discovery in the blue skys and pleasant temperatures of this “land of eternal spring.”
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![]() For the last two weeks I have been traveling farther from Antigua, to the Petén and Rio Dulce areas in the north and eastern parts of Guatemala. It was one of the most incredible trips of my life! I was deeply moved in visiting the ancient Mayan sites of Tikal and Uaxactún. It was impossible to be indifferent next to the temples and pyramids, these structures of massive limestone towering well above the tallest trees in the surrounding jungle, placed with incredible precision so that every year the path of solstices and equinoxes is light passing through an opening in the stones. Petén is home to one of the world’s largest remaining rainforests and is also considered to be the “cradle of Mayan civilization” a region where the Mayan calendar was perfected and the incredible site of Tikal constructed, over a period of nearly 2000 years. |
Louise "Luisa" Wisechild, PhDI first visited Guatemala in 1995 as a member of the Vashon Island sister city delgation to Santiago de Atitlan, Guatemala. Archives
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