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.
Río Dulce gorge boat trip
Antigua
The run from Río Dulce down to Livingston passes through a limestone gorge hung with vines, past hot springs, bird islands and Q'eqchi' villages on the water.
Time needed
Half a day each way
Hours
Open daily 24 hours
Tips
Boats leave from the docks under the bridge at Fronteras and fill up in the morning. Livingston has no road connection, so the river or the sea is the only way in or out.
Phone
5068 8329Neighborhood
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.