a Little about Guatemala...

Guatemala is a small country located in Central America it shares borders with Mexico to the north and west, Belize to the northeast, Honduras to it’s southeast and El Salvador to it’s south. A small coast on the east and a large coast on the south. Great fishing I am told.

Its volcanoes are the highest and most active, its Mayan ruins are most impressive and its earthquakes are the most devastating, and its history of repression is world class.


Guatemala covers a total land area slightly smaller that Tennessee, with topography that is a mountainous and forested jumble of volcanoes and jungle. The terrain is mostly mountainous with narrow coastal plains and a rolling limestone plateau called El Peten. The western highlands are home to over 30 volcanoes, which reach heights of over 12,000 feet and cast a red glow at night- and where there is frequent earthquake activity. The intensively cultivated Pacific coastline is a vast expanse of mostly black beaches. The vast jungle lowland of El Peten fills the interior.

These are excerps from our handbook that we were given to prepare for a short-term trip last year.