Guatemala

Did you know?

• 🌳Tikal's pyramids tower over the rainforest and were a major Maya city for over 1,000 years.
• ✨Has more than 30 volcanoes, several of them still active.
• 🏞Lake Atitlán is ringed by volcanoes and indigenous Maya villages.
• 🍫Chocolate was invented by the ancient Maya — cacao beans were used as currency.
• 🐦The quetzal — the national bird — gives its name to the currency and is famously almost impossible to keep in captivity.