I got my bags backed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo

15 Amateur Traveler episode 795. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about Mayan Ruins, active

volcanoes, colonial cities, crafts, and hikes as we go to the Central American country of Guatemala.

I know that I should be heading home, but maybe not, maybe not today. Welcome to the Amateur Traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen

Let's Talk About Guatemala. I'd like to welcome back to the show Susan

Matnosky from Brooklyn tropicali.com who's come to talk to us about

Guatemala. Susan welcome back to the show. Thank you thanks for having me and I invited Susan back because I enjoyed the talk we did on Oaxaca not that long ago and

Susan pitched me Guatemala.

So Susan, what's your connection with Guatemala?

So I've just been several times over the years and it's a place that just kind of keeps pulling me back in and I feel like can never kind of get enough of it.

I think the first time I went was in 2014 for just about a week and a half trip and really

fell in love.

It's such a rich culture and such an interesting place.

So when I started traveling full time,

I ended up going back again for a longer period

for two, three weeks. And then since then have been back again again so it's just

one of those places that there's so much to see and learn and do and here.

Excellent and why should someone go to Guatemala? and do and here. Excellent.

And why should someone go to Guatemala?

So I think it's such a diverse place.

I think you can do and learn so much in just a week's time.

...