Among the Maya

The Exotic Guatemalan Highlands

Text and photography by Hilary Wallace

From the lakeside villages of Atitlán to the austere, windswept valleys of Paquix and the fertile green checkerboard of the milpas (corn fields), the Guatemalan Highlands encompass some of the most breathtaking scenery in the Americas. These exotic lands also harbor Central America’s most extensive Native cultures, descended from the original Maya people.