The Viaventurer

The Viaventure Central America Newsletter – “The Viaventurer” – offers readers a variety of tantalizing travel tips, inspirational ideas, local secrets, personal touches & invaluable information from all our destinations. It’s the ultimate inside scoop on Central America.

Antigua: Mountain Karts

By Fares Perez | Published: January 7, 2026

A New Adventure: Mountain Karts We’ve zip-lined across enough valleys in Guatemala to know what travelers expect: harness up, clip in, enjoy the view while gravity does the work. Mountain karts flip that formula. The hills outside Antigua, the dirt…

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Antigua: Roasting at Origin

By Fares Perez | Published: January 7, 2026

Tres Pasos Coffee: Roasting at Origin in Antigua Tres Pasos Coffee began in Antigua, Guatemala, not as a roastery, but as a coffee tour operation. Spending time with small producers made one reality hard to ignore. Many farmers producing excellent…

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Chichicastenango: Santo Tomas Festival

By Fares Perez | Published: January 6, 2026

Santo Tomás Festival in Chichicastenango We arrived in Chichicastenango on the final day of the Fiesta de Santo Tomás, and the town felt like it had been plugged into an amplifier. This is usually a quiet highland community in El…

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Oaxaca: Foody Sunday at the Tlacolula Market

By Fares Perez | Published: December 8, 2025

Foody Sunday at the Tlacolula Market Oaxaca’s Sundays move at a different rhythm, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the Tianguis de Domingo in Tlacolula de Matamoros. While most visitors stay close to Oaxaca City on weekends, this…

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Chiapas: Hiking to the Blue Lakes of Montebello

By Fares Perez | Published: December 8, 2025

Hiking to the Blue Lakes of Montebello Chiapas is full of places that reward curiosity, but every so often we come across a site that feels genuinely overlooked. The Lagunas de Montebello is one of those places. We visited to…

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Chiapas: Meeting the Women Behind Bankilal Café

By Fares Perez | Published: December 8, 2025

Meeting the Women Behind Bankilal Café Morning light settled over the hills of Tenejapa as we arrived. The air was cool, the landscape quiet except for the sound of water moving through the manantiales (water springs) the community bought decades…

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