Our Travel guide for Guatemala

Our Travel guide for Guatemala, featuring Travel news coverage for Antigua Guatemala, Monterrico, Livingston, Rio Dulce and Lake Atitlan, with up-to-date information on attractions, hotels, restaurants, nightlife, travel tips and more.

Having lived in the area for several years we offer visitors first-hand knowledge of where to go and what to see, the right guides to use and advice about sights travelers might enjoy based on their interests.

The women of San Antonio Aguas Calientes are renowned for their complicated and highly valued tight two-faced weave or Brocado technique that produces an identical image on the front and back, double-face weave.

Their weaving and the pattern of the close brocades is the most complicated in the Mayan world. The designs are woven, not embroidered, into the fabric. These huipils are hand woven using traditional cotton thread on a backstrap loom. To make one huipil, it may take five to six months of weaving every day.