Guatemala guidebooks

Guidebooks about Guatemala and Central America

Prepare your travel to Guatemala with a first-rate guidebook. Plan your itineraries before you leave home. That way you will find all the best spots and bargains.

Lonely Planet Guatemala

Let Guatemala saturate the senses. Experience it all: the people, colors, food, music, landscape. From the Volcán Fuego to the Monagua Valley, from the vibrant city of Antigua to the hidden villages of the Maya, let this guide be your key to this fascinating country. Information on all major Mayan sites, lodging listings for every budget, maps and more.

Rough Guide to Guatemala

This guide to Guatemala includes: listings of the best places to eat, drink and stay, whatever the budget; accounts of all the sights, from Guatemala City to the Peten ruins and the entire Pacific coast; and practical advice on trekking and volcano climbs.

Sacred Monkey River: A Canoe Trip with the Gods

Christopher Shaw, an American writer and canoeist, makes a journey down the Maya's "watery path". Sacred Monkey River is a spiritually charged quest into once-sacred geography. Shaw takes us through forbidding territory, delivering glimpses of rainforest country that is in imminent danger of being felled by the region's expanding timber concerns and dammed by governments intent on harnessing hydroelectric, and political, power.

Lonely Planet Central America On a Shoestring

Probably the best known and used of all the guidebooks. Includes budget hotel accommodation, the best spots for scuba diving, wildlife watching, jungle trekking and language study. Air, bus and ferry routs and schedules, including border information. Detailed maps. Covers: Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

Knopf Guides: Route Of The Mayas: Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador

Journey through the mysterious Mayan ruins of the Yucatan and Central America and learn about the fascinating Mayan civilization through this lavishly illustrated and information-packed book, with more than 1,000 drawings, photos and maps. Colorful cross sections and plans of city-states illustrate the Route of the Mayas.

Let’s Go Central America

A comprehensive guide to Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. This edition boasts expanded coverage of local and indigenous culture, beaches, and the outdoors. More listings of Spanish schools and volunteer opportunities help travelers extend their stays, get involved, and make a difference.

Footprint Central America and Mexico Handbook

Whether you're looking for the ancient Maya pyramids, Spanish colonial splendours, majestic volcanoes, adventure sports or just the best beaches, this guide offers practical travel advice along with background information on ancient civilizations, archaeological sites and revolutionary history.

Guatemala Map

Waterproof, tear-resistant travel map in color. Color changes show elevations. Shows roads and highways with distances in kilometers; railways; ferries; international and state borders, international and domestic airports; archaeological sites; active volcanoes; waterfalls; caves; reefs; more. Includes index of places. With inset maps of Guatemala City and Antigua.

Central America Map

Travel map of Central America in color. Shows roads from paved Inter-American Highways to secondary and seasonal tracks, with distances in kilometers; railways; airports and landing grounds; ferry routes; active volcanoes; mountains with altitude in meters; protected areas; points of interest; beaches; gas stations; more.