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.
Cerro de la Cruz
Antigua · Free
A short climb to the cross on the hill north of town, where the whole grid of Antigua lines up beneath Volcán de Agua.
Time needed
1 hour
Hours
Open daily 24 hours
Tips
Tourist police escort walkers up from Parque Central on a set schedule; go with them or by tuk-tuk rather than alone, and go in the morning for the clearest volcano.
Neighborhood
Antigua Guatemala
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.