Guatemala

Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, Lucas Vidgen has been living in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, for nearly 10 years. He first arrived with the idea of studying Spanish for a couple of weeks and the rest is too much history to fit into this space. Lucas has contributed to a variety of Lonely Planet titles over the last decade, mostly in Central and South America. When not writing for Lonely Planet, he divides his time between other writing projects and working with two Quetzaltenangobased NGOs, as Vice President of EntreMundos and Managing Director of Solidaridad y Desarrollo.
Lucas also wrote the Plan Your Trip, Understand Guatemala and Survival Guide sections. A native New Yorker, Daniel C Schechter called Mexico home for more than a decade. During that time he spanned the Mundo Maya on various forays from the capital, discovering and writing about such places as Campeche, Calakmul and Tikal and cultivating an enduring interest in Classic Maya history. It seemed fitting to revisit the territory for this edition at the dawn of the new baktun.
Daniel currently resides in the Netherlands.