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.
Kaminaljuyú
Antigua · Guatemalan visitors Q5; foreign visitors Q50. Pay in Guatemalan quetzales.
One of the great highland Maya cities, occupied for well over a thousand years and now a grassed archaeological park surrounded by Guatemala City's Zona 7.
Time needed
1 hour
Hours
Open daily 8:00 AM–4:00 PM
Tips
Most of the site lies buried under the modern city and the mounds are earthen rather than stone, so it reads best after a visit to the national archaeology museum.
Phone
2208 6600Neighborhood
Zona 7, Guatemala City
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.