Culture
Indigenous markets, colonial heritage, living traditions and the Maya legacy that still shapes daily life across the region.
Honduran food: baleadas and 15 dishes worth trying
Honduran cooking is a mix of indigenous, Spanish, African and Caribbean traditions built on maize, beans and seafood.…
Copán Ruinas: a guide to Honduras’ great Maya site
Copán is one of the most important sites of the Maya civilisation and a UNESCO World Heritage Site…
Salvadoran food: pupusas and 15 dishes worth trying
Salvadoran cooking is a fusion of Pipil and Maya tradition with Spanish influence, built around maize. The famous…
Ruta de las Flores, El Salvador: a guide to the five towns
The Ruta de las Flores is one of the most charming drives in Central America. This 36-kilometre circuit…
What to do in Suchitoto, El Salvador’s finest colonial town
Suchitoto — “place of the flower bird” in Nahuatl — is the cultural capital and the colonial jewel…
Quetzaltenango (Xela): what to do in Guatemala’s second city
Quetzaltenango, known to everyone as Xela — pronounced “shay-la” — is Guatemala‘s second city and one of its…
Guatemalan food: 15 dishes you have to try
Guatemalan cooking is among the richest in Central America. The result of centuries of fusion between ancestral Maya…
Chichicastenango market: Central America’s largest indigenous market
Twice a week, the mountain town of Chichicastenango disappears under a canopy of tarpaulins and becomes the largest…
Tikal: how to visit Guatemala’s greatest Maya ruins
Deep in the Petén jungle sits Tikal, the largest Maya city ever uncovered and one of those places…
Antigua Guatemala: what to see, do and eat
If one place in Guatemala takes your heart immediately, it is Antigua Guatemala. This colonial city, ringed by…