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.
San Juan La Laguna
Antigua
The tidiest and most purposeful of the lake villages, built around women's weaving cooperatives that dye with plants, plus a street of painters' galleries.
Time needed
Half a day
Tips
The cooperatives run free demonstrations of the natural dye process and expect no purchase. It is a ten-minute tuk-tuk ride from San Pedro if you are staying there.
Phone
5427 3236Neighborhood
San Juan La Laguna, Lake Atitlán
Activity providers
Kosher map of Antigua
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