Trips to Guatemala

LIVINGSTON

Locality shown to the Caribbean Sea difference of the rest of the country by its Caribbean culture and its rates. The population of Livingston enjoys the calm style of life beliceño, with its coconut palms, its painted buildings of glad colors and an economy based on the fishing and the tourism.

Livingston has a geographic situation privileged person, located safe from the Bay of Amatique, tropical storm prote'ge'e and hurricanes, and near the neighboring countries of Honduras and Belize; for that reason it is the point to begin with par excellence for the traveller who wants to discover this part of the coast of the Caribbean.

As tourist destiny, Livinston combines Caribbean crystalline water beaches, palms, ebullient vegetation and white sand, forest, the splendid tube of the Sweet River with its adjacent lagoons and brooks, as well as a rich fauna, in which a great variety with marine birds and other tropical birds abound.

One of the most interesting characteristics of Livingston is that in this small corner of Guatemala different ethnic groups coexist harmoniously:

• Garifunas that arrived in 1802 coming from the island of Roatan, Honduras. Garifunas has their roots in the Caribbean island San Vicente, in whom the African slaves mixed themselves with the natives of the Caribbean as of century XVII. The language garifuna is a mixture of Caribbean and African languages with a French touch.
• The Hindus that arrived by Belize and had their origins in India.
• Q'eqchi, descendants of the Mayans.
• the judeo-spanish ones that includes to social groups with different origins and culture.

This region is well-known in Guatemala like the Earth of God.


White beach: Beautiful white sand beach and crystalline waters located to about 25 minutes of Livingston. Accessible solely by sea, turns which it into a paradisiac and deprived place. It is possible to be arrived in private or collective boat: the passage is calm and is a sample of the beauty of the Caribbean Sea.

Seven Altars: Located to about 5 km of accessible Livingston and by sea or earth, are the Seven Altars. True cascade paradise of fresh water and deep rocks. From the mountain and in the heart of the tropical forest it lowers a crystalline water river that ends at the Caribbean Sea. In his reduction, it draws capricious forms in the stone, it excavates pozas of all the sizes and it forms cascades and games of water. Ebullient flora and fauna.

River Quehueche:  Mangrove swamps, birds, fish and clean water. In the Quehueche river they are possible to be taken delicious baths and to be admired the beautiful fauna that characterizes the place. Their waters end at the Caribbean sea giving rise to a wonderful landscape.

Tube of Dulce River: The Dulce River is a great river, of 500 to 1500 meters in width. It has around 30 kilometres of length. Its average widening, called “the Golfete”, almost constitutes a lagoon surrounded by sylvan atmospheres.  To cross the Dulce River allows to observe a great amount of birds, from the endemic ones to those of the tropical forest and to admire beautiful landscapes throughout all their course. The river and the Lagos are fed by many smaller rivers, streams and countless brooks.