Links
Guatemala: Publications, Guides and Tourist Info
- All About Guides – online/print guide to Antigua. Download free PDF of guide on website
- Antigua Daily Photo – photos/short articles about Antigua and Guatemalan culture/traditions
- AroundAntigua – useful online travel guide to Antigua
- Degustantigua – Antigua’s online dining guide: restaurant listings, menus, recommendations
- Experience Guatemala – tourist directory
- Guatemala Daily Photo – photos/short articles covering Guatemala
- INGUAT – official tourist office of Guatemala website
- Qué Pasa – online/print magazine for the latest on what’s happening in Guatemala
- Revue – Guatemala’s English-language online/print magazine
- UNESCO Guatemala
- Xela Daily Photo – photos/short articles from Xela (Quetzaltenango)
Living Overseas
- Location Independent – resources to live and work anywhere
Photography
- About Photography – photography tips and podcasts
- Cambridge in Colour – a learning community for photographers
- Digital Photography School – photography tips, tutorials, equipment, forum and critiques
- Fotoflock – photography tips, contests, critiques, interviews and resources
- Learning Photography – digital photography tips
- Light Stalking – photography tips
- Expert Photography– digital photography tips and techniques
- Photopreneur – tips on earning an income from photography
- Picture Correct – photography tips and techniques
- Picture Social – photographer’s network
- Ron Bigelow Photography – photography tips and videos
- Shutterbug – photography tips, techniques, equipment, forum and resources
Stock Photo Agencies
Check out MY SHUTTERSTOCK Portfolio
Travel
- Dragonfly Travel – El Salvador
- V!VA Travel Guides – Central America
Travel Blogs
- Adventurous Kate – solo female travel blog
- Al Gravitar Rodando – jewelry, travel, thoughts
- Hole in the Donut Cultural Travel – culture, travel and travel tips
- La Avventura – photography, expat tales and short stories
- Nomadic Matt – resource for up-to-date travel information
- the thirdeyeworld – travel postcards and notes
- thirdeyemom – travel, culture and social good
- Traveling on a Bumpy Road Across the Continents – travel stories around the world
- Wildjunket – an adventure travel blog that covers everything from gastronomy to culture
Travel Photography
- Matador Network: Matador Notebook – travel writing, photography and film
- Matador Travel Photography Program – online travel photography course
- The Photographer’s Life – workshops, resources, tips on photography and selling photos
- The Travel Photographer – photography expeditions/workshops
- Travel Photographer’s Network – photography tips, critiques and challenges
- Turn Your Pictures into Cash – Great Escape Publishing Photography Program
- Ultimate Guide to Travel Photography – links to articles and websites with tips, advice, gear, contests and other resources
Travel Writing
- Matador Network: Matador Notebook – travel writing, photography and film
- Matador Travel Writing Program – online travel writing course
- The Travel Writer’s Life – workshops, resources, tips on writing and selling articles
- The Ultimate Travel Writer’s Program – Great Escape Publishing Travel Writing Program
Volunteering: Guatemala – in and around Antigua
- Asociación Constru Casa – housing
- Asociación Manos Abiertas – women’s health
- Asociación Nueva Generación – education
- Aware – animal rescue (Sumpango)
- CasaSitio – scholarship and education
- Child Aid – promotes literacy
- ChocoGuateMaya – agriculture welfare
- CIPECADI – psychology and special education
- Common Hope – education
- De Casas a Hogares – homes, education and health
- Ecofiltro – water
- Fundación los Niños – education and scholarships
- Guatemala Non-Profit Network – synergy and information
- La Fundación Riecken – community libraries
- Las Manos de Christine – educational support
- Las Voces del Silencio – educational project for the deaf
- Let’s Be Ready – preschool education
- Los Patojos (Spanish) – education, nutrition and health
- Niños de Guatemala – education
- Nuestros Ahijados – education
- Safe Passage/Camino Seguro – education and development
- Semillas de Amor – education (Parramos)
- Seres – environmental education
- T.E.S.S. Unlimited – cleft lips/palates, child nutrition and education (San Gaspar Vivar)
- Transitions Foundation – Guatemalans with disabilities
- Wings – reproductive health
Leave a comment at the bottom of this page, email me at loca4motion@gmail.com or use the contact form below. Thanks!
loca4motion 
Lucy,
I am planning to come to Guatemala next Jan to study spanish, Latin cooking and Guitar, and would like to make contacts now. I read your short article in the lates Internatinal Living mag.
Any tips are greatly apreciated.
Best regards,
Rod Broome
June 28, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Hi Rod,
Take a look at these links to free local magazines. You can view the issues online and they might give you a bit more idea of the place.
http://revuemag.com/
http://grupoquepasa.com/
This one you might also find useful: http://antiguadailyphoto.com/
I’m not sure if you’re planning on coming to Antigua but if you are take a look at http://www.vivatravelguides.com/user-profile/name/lucy-brown/
There’s a list of reviews and information online that I wrote for a travel guidebook including some Spanish schools. Also if you want to study Spanish a bit before you arrive some teachers give individual classes via Skype and I have a couple of contacts if you’re interested.
If you have any questions please email me at loca4motion@gmail.com
All the best,
Lucy
June 28, 2011 at 7:01 pm
Wow! Thanks for sharing all these links! I am considering travel writing & photography as a profession too, and these are v helpful!
Thanks 🙂
May 2, 2012 at 8:14 pm
I hope they help Ritu! Good luck with the travel writing and photography. Judging from your blog you’ll do well!!! Love your photos by the way! 🙂
Consider approaching International Living with some pieces on Singapore. Check out their website http://internationalliving.com/
May 3, 2012 at 10:32 am