Trips to Guatemala

THE PROGRESS

Located to the east of Guatemala, the Progress is a climate place varied according to the regions and counts on a natural wealth worthy to be visited.
First of all, the Mountain range of the Mines, natural treasure with a surprising variety of flora and fauna (now in danger by the lumber industry). It is a protected area and its access is not simple. The most prominent elevation is the hill the Pinalón.

It owns architectonic treasures like the churches of San Cristóbal Acasaguastlán and the one of very calm San Agustín Acasaguastlán, both towns.

The departmental head, Guastatoya, are a quite built-up city and that counts on an excellent aquatic park to rest and to amuse itself. Also the own rivers of the region can be visited if a concurred bath is desired less.

The Progress is a rich department in traditions that are reflected in folkloric Literature like supernatural stories, legend and histories, especially animísticas: of appeared and bores in pain; as well as wonderful animal stories, stupid and ingenuous and magical, almost unique bandit in Guatemala.

In the Progress the best narrators of oral histories of Guatemala exist, the old calls accountants who by their prodigious memory constitute themselves in living archives of oral Literature.
During the supervisory celebrations, they are carried out jaripeos (roundups), fights of roosters and tape races.

The Progress is a true rest for the travellers and an excellent destiny to appreciate architectonic wealth that seem lengthy in the time.