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An insider’s look at Guatemala, Belize & Honduras Plus: Guatemala’s Semana Santa celebrations Pick-your-own coffee Honeymoon Hotels Maya shaman rituals Life on a Honduran farm 10 Bespoke Experiences for Every Budget Scuba diving Belize’s barrier reef Top Spots for Coastal & Jungle Wildlife Contents 4 Map of Central America 6 About Viaventure 7 Director’s Note 10 Meet Viaventure 16 Letters to Viaventure 22 News & Notes 23 Souvenirs to Score 26 Our Take on Sustainable Travel 126 Example Itineraries 128 A Local Perspective: Ambergris Caye, Belize Features EXPLORE 34 12 Awesome Activities to Keep the Whole Family Happy 38 5 Top Spots for Coastal Wildlife in Belize PLUS…A Guatemalan animal rescue center, bespoke experiences for every budget, a 10-day jungle adventure, and more. E AT 68 A Taste of Honduran Farm Life 72 Edible Antigua PLUS…A not-to-miss Belize beach bar, how to make corn tortillas, and more. SEE 82 6 Tips to Spending Easter in Antigua 98 Copán: Through the Eyes of an Archaeologist PLUS…Other places to party, Honduras’s tropical bird park, and more. S TAY 110 3 Must-Visit Eco-lodges 112 Where to Stay If You Love… PLUS…Vacationing by boat in Belize, honeymoon hotels, and more. Country Index Throughout the magazine, you’ll notice the following icons. Each indicates which country is covered in a story. hn Honduras gt Guatemala bz Belize 2 3 CENTRAL AMERICA LAMANAI Ambergris Caye San Pedro Belize City Hol Chan Marine Reserve El Mirador TIKAL San Ignacio Maya Flats BLUE HOLE Flores Airport Dangriga Placencia Caracol Aguateca ROATÁN Punta Gorda UTILA RIO DULCE Livingston La Ceiba PICO BONITO Huehuetenango San Pedro Sula Chichicastenango Copán Quetzaltenango Lake Atitlán Guatemala City COPÁN Antigua RUINAS Tegucigalpa TRAVEL TIMES: PACAYA VOLCANO Guatemala Guatemala City to Antigua (driving): 45 minutes Antigua to Lake Atitlán (driving): 2.5 hours Guatemala City to Flores (flying): 1 hour Belize Belize City to San Ignacio (driving): 1.5 hours Belize City to Ambergris Caye (flying): 20 minutes Belize City to Punta Gorda (flying): 1 hour Belize City to Placencia (flying): 40 minutes Honduras San Pedro Sula to Copán Ruinas (driving): 3 hours San Pedro Sula to La Ceiba (flying): 20 minutes La Ceiba to Roatán (flying): 15 minutes 4 5 About Viaventure Central America Founded in 2001 by British, Swiss, and North American travel experts, Viaventure is Central America’s premier destination management company. Based in Antigua, Guatemala, we offer tailor-made tours in Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, as well as specialist travel services for Mexico and the rest of Central America. Our team of top-notch travel professionals hails from around the globe and specializes in creating innovative itineraries that match the interests and budget of our guests. Our clients include families, honeymooners, student groups, luxury travelers, and more. Whether you’re looking to learn about coffee in the rural fields of Guatemala, scuba dive with sharks along the world’s second-largest barrier reef, discover the street eats of a picture- perfect colonial city, or explore (and maybe camp under) an ancient Maya temple, we guarantee your holiday will be enriching, exciting, and unforgettable. Travel with us to discover the best that Central America has to offer. What makes Viaventure different? We’re passionate about what we do. We want you to be as excited about our destinations as we are. To that end, our staff and guides go out of their way to provide the 's Note best possible service before, during, and after every trip. ¡Hola!Director We offer on-the-ground expertise— the kind necessary to create truly unique itineraries that you simply won’t find anywhere else. We know Lovely to meet you! I’m Becky Harris, one of the founders and directors of Viaventure Central our destinations inside and out and maintain close America, and I’m thrilled to introduce you to our brand new brochure-cum-travel-magazine. relationships with our suppliers, which leads to more personalized service for our guests. We’re ahead of the curve. Our goal in the following pages is to give you a taste of our company and Central America We’re constantly on the hunt for the next great and leave you wanting more—much more. Flip through our stories on bespoke experiences destination, tour, hotel, restaurant, or museum. for every budget, honeymoon hotels, top spots for coastal wildlife in Belize, and how to do Our staff stays up-to-date on what’s new by taking Guatemala’s Semana Santa (an over-the-top Easter celebration), and you’ll quickly see the part in training events, conducting site visits, and incredible range of experiences and offerings that Viaventure and this part of the world can checking in regularly with our destinations. serve up. We listen to our clients. Viaventure was born in 2001 on the back of a napkin in a Los Angeles café by James Goller, a Tell us what you want in a trip, and we will helicopter pilot from the United States, and me, a globetrotting Brit and reformed mechanical make it happen. Special requests are our forte. engineer. We moved to Guatemala, joined forces with Beat Brunschwiler, a veteran mountain We offer itineraries for every budget and expert biker from Switzerland, and over the years, have built a multinational team of dedicated and guides for nearly every interest, from archaeology energetic travel professionals. Our creative crew designs one-of-a-kind travel itineraries with the to textiles to birds. same excitement we all experience when journeying to a new destination. We make selling Central America easy. Few places in the world can boast the cultural, geographic, and historic wealth of Central We have a training site that’s packed with example America, particularly the countries of Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras, where we offer the itineraries, photos, and destination and tour majority of our specialist travel services. In this region, you’ll find UNESCO World Heritage descriptions. We conduct online client trainings, ruins, smoking volcanoes, wildlife-filled rainforests, pristine beaches, scenic colonial towns, take part in road shows, and arrange office visits colorful markets, and a number of rich, vibrant cultures, including that of the Maya. The food is to help you better understand the places we go. an art form all its own. We’ll also work with you to develop smart ways to increase sales and improve conversion rates. Our trips highlight the best that Central America has to offer and are tailor-made to our clients’ taste. They include the kinds of out-of-the-ordinary experiences and unexpected touches— from private dinners with archaeologists and bike rides through rural mountain towns to street food tours and chocolate-making classes—that make for a truly unforgettable holiday. GET IN TOUCH So grab a cup of coffee (make it a Guatemalan brew) and settle in for a good read, one that we hope inspires you and your clients to hop on a plane to try piping-hot corn tortillas, track www.viaventure.com down red-footed boobies in Belize, or explore a rural Honduran farm—with our help, of course. +502 7934-6687 ¡Un abrazo Thanks for joining us on this journey of exploration. We look forward to hearing from you. [email protected] Becky Harris twitter.com/viaventure Viaventure Director/Co-founder facebook.com/viaventurecentralamerica fuerte! [email protected] 6 7 An enchanting escape Antigua • Guatemala San Ignacio • Cayo District • Belize Tel: (502) 7832-7903 • Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] • Tel: +501-834-4038 or +501-834-4049 www.casaencantada-antigua.com www.blackrocklodge.com 8 9 Want to meet a few A Guide’s Tale: of the hard-working, Carlos Vivar cool, and totally creative people who make our awesome Meet trips, well, awesome? Here’s a sampling of VIAVENTURE the Viaventure crew. Maria Julia Rivera Fito Alvarado Clelia Aquino Vinicio Peña Israel Canto Kevin & Stephanie García For nearly two decades, Carlos Vivar has helped clients explore the Operations and Guide Travel Specialist Guide Guide (Belize) Travel Specialist (FIT) & Sales Manager culture, history, and beauty of Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, Supplier Manager (Honduras) (Groups and Incentives) (Guatemala) and Mexico. A fulltime member of the Viaventure team who assists with A member of team Viaventure Viaventure’s dynamic brother-sister duo, Kevin operations and trainings and guides many of our trips, Carlos grew up in since 2010, Israel Canto lives and Stephanie grew up on the Channel Islands A native of Guatemala City, Fito has lived in the small Born and raised in Antigua, Vinicio grew up in Canada’s Guatemala’s remote, northern department of El Petén, in a small community Maria Julia explored the town of Copán Ruinas, one Guatemala, Clelia has a Yukon Territory, before in the hub of Belize’s Cayo of Great Britain. They moved with their parents wilds of Central America as kilometer from Honduras’s degree in psychology and returning to his native District—San Ignacio—but to Guatemala in 2000 and work just desks away where airplanes were seen long before cars. a Viaventure guide for six famed Copán archaeological has worked for Viaventure Guatemala to join the military grew up in a small Maya from each other in Viaventure’s FIT department. village where the Mountain They’re passionate about travel. Kevin cites Called Uaxactún and comprising an archaeological site, too, Carlos’s village was a giant jungle years before settling into an site, his entire life and has since 2007, creating at 15 years old. For the playground where he grew up climbing ancient temples and listening to the tales his grandfather, office job in Antigua in 2013.
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