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.
Rostro Maya (Indian Nose)
Antigua
The ridge the locals call the Maya Face is the sunrise walk on Atitlán, an hour up in the dark for first light over the volcanoes and the lake.
Time needed
3–4 hours including the pre-dawn start
Hours
Open daily 24 hours
Tips
Access runs through community-controlled land and a local guide is required; arrange one the day before through your hotel. It is cold at the top before sunrise even in the dry season.
Neighborhood
San Juan La Laguna, Lake Atitlán
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.