City overview
Guatemala packs volcanoes, Maya cities and colonial streets into a country you can cross in a day. Antigua's cobbled centre sits beneath three volcanoes, Lake Atitlan fills a crater ringed by Maya villages, and Tikal's temples rise out of the Peten rainforest. The Jewish community numbers under a thousand people, almost all of them in Guatemala City, where an Orthodox congregation and a Sephardi society have both been established for a century. Three Chabad houses serve travellers - one in the capital, one in Antigua and one on the shore of Lake Atitlan - and each of them cooks. Kosher food, Shabbos meals and a minyan are all reachable on the standard Guatemala route.
Castillo de San Felipe de Lara
Antigua
A small 17th-century Spanish fortress built to stop Caribbean pirates entering Lake Izabal, restored and walkable turret by turret.
Time needed
1 hour
Hours
Open daily 8:00 AM–5:00 PM
Tips
Easiest reached by lancha from Río Dulce, which is also the nicest approach. Combine it with a boat trip downriver toward Livingston.
Phone
7947 0661Neighborhood
Río Dulce, Izabal
Activity providers
Kosher map of Antigua
Pick a place on the map or search an address or hotel to see what is kosher around it.