The dry season, from November to April, is perfect for exploring the country without worrying about heavy rains.

“For the Classic Maya, in many ways, clothing defined personhood,” says ... including all of the Yucatan Peninsula, Belize, and Guatemala, as well as western Honduras and El Salvador and ...

Mined in the Motagua River Valley of Guatemala by the Olmecs and Maya people as early as 1,800 ... Turning Upcycled Objects Into Clothing: With his brand Ponte, Harry Pontefract turns unexpected ...

In the rainforests of Guatemala are the ruins of one of the great sites of Maya civilisation. Tikal was settled during ... while each had unique clothing and facial expressions. Though famous now for ...

A few presidents ago, I was quite upset about U.S. involvement in a war. I read in the local paper that the president had ...

Secluded from the rest of Guatemala on the country's east coast, the port town of Livingston has a Caribbean-like culture ...

From colonial charm to luxurious modernity, Guatemala’s tourism sector is undergoing a revival, blending its rich cultural ...

Around the shores of this lake in southwestern Guatemala, Maya artisans have come together to showcase their crafts, be it by painting villages, updating pottery traditions or pouring elixirs so ...

BORN IN GUATEMALA, MAYA WAS ADOPTED INTO THE MCDERMOTT FAMILY WHEN SHE WAS JUST 11 MONTHS OLD. SO THOSE ARE NOT MY BIOLOGICAL BROTHERS. BUT I DO HAVE A BIOLOGICAL SISTER THAT WAS ADOPTED FROM ...

Though not all, most come from rural Mayan towns in Guatemala, sometimes paying up to $20,000 to cross the southern border. While migration has become an increasingly common pathway out of poverty ...