Guatemala, Belize & Yucatan
Iain Stewart
Language: English
Pages: 450
ISBN: B00ZVPXR8Q
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Insight Guide Guatemala, Belize & the Yucatan is an essential guide to this colorful region, brought to life with hundreds of evocative photographs. Our inspirational Best of Guatemala, Belize and the Yucatan section highlights the area’s unmissable sights and experiences, while a comprehensive Travel Tips section gives you all the practical information you need to plan your trip, and our selective listings bring you the best hotels and restaurants.
Lavish magazine-style features offer a unique insight into certain aspects of this part of the world, looking at Mayan ruins, Guatemalan textiles and eco-tourism in Belize. A detailed Places section, with full-color maps cross-referenced to the lively narrative, guides you around the entire region, from Lake Atitlán in the Guatemalan Highlands and Belize’s Barrier Reef to Chichén Itzá, one of the greatest Maya cities.
and rarely leave it. All the hotels are huge and, although next to each other, getting between them can be such a trek it hardly seems worthwhile to go visiting. Most hotels are self-contained, with restaurants, pools, beachfront, discos, lobby bars with soaring atriums, and shopping arcades, and more and more operate on an all-inclusive plan. The hotel strip has just one long street, Boulevard Kukulcán, with no street numbers but kilometer indicators (counting from the north end) to help locate
0482 Extremely civilized bastion of European cooking, with good dishes on the menu, fine coffee, and an amazing dessert cabinet. $$ Lívingston Bahía Azul Av de Commercio (Main St) Tel: 7947 0133 Simple, informal cafe-restaurant, great for breakfast or an inexpensive meal. $ Casa Rosada Hotel Casa Rosada Tel: 7947 0303 www.hotelcasarosada.com About 10 minutes’ walk west of the dock. Fine vegetarian cooking, but lobster and filet mignon are also on the menu. Eat overlooking the
Great view of the harbor and bridge from the upper deck. Serves Belizean breakfast of fry jacks and eggs, and is very popular with lunchtime workers, so get there after the rush. $ Chateau Caribbean 6 Marine Parade Tel: 223 0800 Waterfront location with a colonial atmosphere, offering a Chinese and Caribbean menu. $$ Harbour View 14 Fort Street, near the Tourism Village Tel: 223 6420 Waterfront restaurant serving East Asian and Belizean cuisine, especially good for fresh seafood. Has
Nicaragua had broken away from Mexico and formed a united federation based in Guatemala City. The Guatemalan Manuel José Arce became the federation’s first president. This arrangement lasted only six years before rebel troops, calling themselves “the allied army for the protection of the law” under General Francisco Morazán from Honduras, took Guatemala City in 1829. An 1885 engraving of a coffee plantation. Alex Havret/Apa Publications Morazán and his successors Morazán was the first in a
of almost constant eruption since 1965. Pacaya is an astonishing sight, especially at night when the finest sound and light show in Guatemala can paint the sky orange with great plumes of lava and gas. Tour agencies in Antigua or Guatemala City can arrange transportation and a guide for the volcano hike, which is about a one-hour climb. Antigua The colonial charm of this tranquil city and its setting amid forest-clad volcanic peaks make it one of the most popular tourist destinations in