Guatemala in $330s-$390s RT

A fellow Jack's traveler recently wrote in to ask:

“I’m interested in traveling to Guatemala, and I know almost nothing about it except that it looks really beautiful. I’m interested in when might be a shoulder season there, still pleasant but not high season, as I don’t love big crowds. I love getting to know villages and local culture as well as experiencing nature - mountains, hiking, and swimming.”

As a solo female traveler, I’ll start with what I wish someone had said to me about traveling in Guatemala: It’s hard, it’s beautiful, and it’ll change you. It’ll challenge everything you think you know if you let it.

But once you allow yourself to be moved by the layers of Maya history, the insane resilience of communities, and truly feel the weight and warmth of a place shaped by such struggle and beauty, you cannot unfeel or unknow.

And isn’t that one of the reasons why we travel to places like this? 

To feel something real enough that it stays with us long after we’re home?

Yeah?

Good. Keep on reading...