Guatemala Adventure
10 Days and 9 Nights
Itinerary:
Day 1: Arrival (Unguided)
Our team will greet you at La Aurora International Airport and will transfer you to the City of Antigua Guatemala, (1 hr)
Lodging in Antigua Guatemala
Day 2: Valley Bike / Walking tour
Riders can bike through the Almolonga Valley, visiting the site of Ciudad Vieja, home of Guatemala’s former second capital, which was buried by an earthquake-triggered mudslide in 1541. Along the way one can visit an experimental macadamia farm and the village of San Antonio Aguas Calientes, famous for its weavings. Other trails, such as the Las Tierra Altas route, pass through a variety of coffee growing and farming areas
After lunch we will visit the ruins and museums that combined with the old cobbled streets keep the stories and legends of those colonial times.
Lodging in Antigua Guatemala (B)
Day 3: Iximche & Lake Atitlan
In the morning visit to Iximche in Tecpán, Iximché was a Maya Cakchiquel city founded in 1463, less than a century before the arrival of the Spaniards, which played a decisive role in the Spanish conquest of this region of Guatemala. In gentle pine forests, you see the traces of this city. Even today, its four ceremonial plazas with their temples and ball court host worship ceremonies for the gods. Have lunch at some of the local restaurants in Tecpán and continue to Lake Atitlan
Lodging at Santiago Atitlan (B)
Day 4: Santiago Cultural tour & Horseback riding
After breakfast we will aboard the boat toward San Pedro Atitlan for a two hours Horseback riding . Then we will transfer you to Santiago Atitlan, one of the main attractions in this village is, without any doubt, the visit to Maximón, the pagan god of the natives who carries cigarette and liquor and receives all kinds of offerings from the visitors.
Lodging at Santiago Atitlan (B)
Day 5: Zip line & Flight to Flores
After breakfast you will aboard a boat trip to Panajachel and the visit San Buenaventura Zip line & trails. Lunch at Panajachel and transfer to the airport for a flight to Flores.
18:50 hrs, meet & greet in Flores airport and transfer to your hotel.
Lodging in Flores Island (B)
Day 6: Las Guacamayas Biological Station
After breakfast you will be ready to take a trip to a paradise for the lovers of nature, our station base is located in the Laguna del Tigre National Park, at the banks of San Pedro River and near the Sacluc stream.
With an abundant wildlife such as spider monkeys and howler monkeys (saraguate), occasionally tapirs, crocodiles, and a great variety of birds, among those we can mention the scarlet macaw, toucans, blue herons, parakeets, and many more…
After a 2 hours transfer from Flores to Paso Caballos community you will aboard a boat for a trip to Las Guacamayas Biological Station. Upon arrival at the site you will have lunch and explore the site and swimming before the sunset. Lodging the Biological Station in bunk beds (B,L,D)
Day 7: El Peru / Yaxha National Park
Jungle morning wake up call, after breakfast you will start the hike to visit El Peru Archaeological site, explore the ruins and visit the lake and observing the guacamayas (scarlet macaw).
After lunch we will aboard the boat at Rio San Pedro towards Paso Caballos.
From Paso Caballos we will take the minibus to Yaxha National Park.
Lodging at El Sombrero Eco Lodge (B,L)
Day 8: Yaxha / Tikal
Enjoy the sunrise at the Shore of Yaxha Lake. And after lunch you explore Yaxha Archaeological site, you will walk through their causeways under an exuberant tropical forest, where howling monkeys flood the atmosphere with their howls to impress the females or to move away an intruding male in their flock. We will climb some temples that are the photographers' accomplices, as they offer wonderful views. We will conclude the day in the high part of the temple 216, the highest structure in the place, after this tour you will be transferred to Tikal
Lodging at Tikal (B,L)
Day 9: Tikal National Park
After breakfast you will have a 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.
Transfer to the airport in the afternoon and flight to Guatemala City
Lodging in Guatemala City (B,L)
Day 10: Back home (unguided)
Breakfast and transfer to the airport in time to catch the international flight.
