The Sound of Good Fat: Macadamia Nuts in Guatemala
In Darrin Duford’s new book Breakfast for Alligators, he visits an organic macadamia nut farm in rural Guatemala to see how the healthy nut crop is grown
Central America
GoNOMAD travel articles about Central America.
Giving Guatemala: A Cement Floor Is Cherished
GlobeAware sends volunteers to help local families improve their lives by putting in cement floors. By Elijah Rivera For most of us, having a solid floor underneath our kitchens and living rooms a pretty basic necessity that we take for granted. But for many rural villagers in Guatemala and other countries, the reality is that […]
Wonder Trail: LA to the End of the World
Guatemala: Beautiful Lake Atitlan on The Wonder Trail. An excerpt from Steve Hely’s new book, The Wonder Trail–True Tales from Los Angeles to the End of the World, in which the author visits nearly every country in Central and South America on a continental road trip
Guatemala: How Not to Climb a Volcano
Guatemala: A comically failed attempt at climbing what the author later discovered was a “black diamond” volcano in Guatemala.
A Stay by the Waterfall in Uvita, Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Sleeping by a Waterfall By Devinne Zadravec It’s endless. Loud. Mind numbing. You stand, exerting no energy other than the forces required to stay upright, while sweat drips off every limb and runs in salty rivers down your forehead. Your eyes struggle to adjust to the exceedingly bright sunshine, and to take in […]
Uvita, Costa Rica: Envisioning a New Festival
Envision Festival in Costa Rica is making sustainability, music, and yoga a great reason to travel.
Luchadors: The Astonishing Gladiators of El Salvador
Lucha Libre Brings El Salvador Together By Kevin Dimetres Attempting to encapsulate El Salvador as a country and culture is an exercise in semantic vanity; in a land where inauthenticity does not go unpunished, El Salvador personifies the very essence of “keeping it real”. Lucha Libre–the theatrical wrestling showcase which takes place every Sunday evening […]
Belize: Jungle Rhythms of Mayan Country
Belize: The Jungle Rhythms of Mayan Country. Discovering the interior of a very lightly populated country.
Belize: Trading Butter for Bathing Suits
Debbie Klauber swaps the heat of the kitchen for the heat of a tropical paradise during the winter months By Sonja Stark It’s the holiday season and one of the country’s most revered pie-making debutantes is feeling the heat. No, she’s not slaving away in the kitchen waiting for the dough to rise. She’s on […]
Costa Rica: A Guide To Driving the Country
Road Trip in Costa Rica: Things You Should Know Before You Go By Deb Schaffer After our third time through a toll booth, we think we’ve got it right. The GPS is screaming to stay left as we come around the circle. We look over and see the first toll booth we went through, correctly […]
Morelia: A Mexican City Worth Discovering
Exploring a city that’s seldom visited by tourists By Genevieve Dwyer As the taxi climbed a hill, heading away from the bus station, I caught my first glimpse of the pink, colonial, checkerboard city of Morelia. From afar, Morelia struck me as a Hollywood imagining of a picturesque colonial city. Soon we hit the cobblestone […]
Guatemala: Journey To Chichicastenango
In Chichicastenango’s Market: A Surprising Offer By Nelson Clark The Highest (and Only) Bidder “She is speaking Quiche, the Mayan language,” said Pascual, our excellent guide. “Why is she trying to give me money?” Virginia said, as the old woman kept offering coins from a leather pouch “Hard to understand, I’m afraid,” he apologized. Her […]