My arm felt like it was about to wrench out of its socket as I hung on to the bars in the bus to keep myself from falling while ... and attends school at Academia el Camino home school. He visited ...

That opening sentence is not from a travel brochure but from one of my novels: The Maya Codex, the first in a trilogy based on ancient prophecies and part set in the jungles of Guatemala.

Andrew Evans recaps his experience riding on a chicken bus along Guatemala’s precipitous mountain roads. Riding a chicken bus is a kind of traveler’s right of passage. That people are carrying ...

Throughout Guatemala’s turbulent recent history its chicken buses, known as las camionetas (vans) or las burras (donkeys) in Spanish, have been a fixture of everyday life. (The tourists’ name ...

Guatemala: where good schoolbuses go after they die. The chicken in a bag on the floor of the bus doesn’t seem to appreciate the driver’s hard breaking. Mayan woman washing clothes in a ...

Offbeat Guatemala rewards the plucky traveller, with friendly people, a pleasant climate, excellent food – and volcanoes Hilary Fennell with Rory Fox, owner The Snug in Antigua de Guatemala ...