Antigua – Atitlan Lake – Chichi - Tikal
6 days and 5 nights
Day 1: Arrival – Antigua (Unguided)
Our team will meet you at the La Aurora International Airport and will take you to the city of Antigua Guatemala.
Lodging in Antigua
Day 2: Cultural walking tour in Antigua / Atitlan Lake
After breakfast it is time for our journey to the ruins and museums that combined with the old cobbled streets keep the stories and legends of those colonial times.
Concluding our journey we will then begin our trip towards the heart of the Guatemalan highland, driving through incredibly colorful landscapes: indigenous people wearing their typical suits that shepherd their sheep and dairy cows, hillsides planted with vegetables and flowers, towns that have captured our history in the paintings and crafts made by local artists (2.5 hrs)
Lodging in Panajachel (B)
Day 3: Atitlan Lake (San Juan and Santiago Atitlan)
This morning you will take a scenic boat ride across Lake Atitlan (30min) to the village of San Juan La Laguna where you can visit the women’s textile cooperative to see hand weaving and the natural dye process. Visit the studios / homes of the celebrated naïf painters and then continue to the village of Santiago where you will have the tour to the village visiting the Maya God Maximon and learn about the textiles, spiritualism and beliefs of the T’zutujil Maya.
After we finish our visit to these magnificent towns, we will stay again in Panajachel (B).
Day 4: Chichicastenango (Thursday and Sunday)
After breakfast, around 8:00 a.m. we will head to Chichicastenango (1 hr) to enjoy the multicolored market, where the scent of incense and the people's mysticism promises a unique atmosphere, bargaining of prices, and a church with mixed Mayan and Catholic traditions. This is a market that every Thursday and Sunday appears and disappears as one of the ancient commercial traditions of the Guatemalan highlands and that now delights the visitors.
At 02:00 p.m. we will go back to Antigua Guatemala. (2.5 hours)
Lodging in Antigua Guatemala (B)
Day 5: Tikal
Early in the morning we will travel towards the La Aurora International Airport, where we will take a flight to Flores, Petén. This is a short 45 minute (approximately) flight.
Our team will greet you at the Mundo Maya International Airport and then we will take you to Tikal National Park, where we will begin the guided tour going through the most important city in the Mayan world, a mixture of nature and archaeology. Abundant wildlife, the Mayan forest, millennial temples silent witnesses of the birth and splendor as well as of the collapse of one of the most important civilizations in the planet, all this is in our visit to Tikal, The City of the Voices.
After the tour we will go back to the airport to take our flight back to Guatemala City.
Lodging in Guatemala City (B)
Day 6: Back home (Unguided)
Breakfast and transfer to the La Aurora International Airport and end of your adventure in the country of the eternal spring. (30 minutes)
