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-- Highlands
-- Tikal
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-- Highlands
-- Yaxhá
-- Tikal
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> 10 days 9 nights
-- Highlands
-- Caribbean
-- Mayan World

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Santiago Atitlan Sightseeing Tour:
Santiago Atitlan is located on foot of the volcanoes Toliman and Atitlan and in front of the volcano San Pedro. Their residents belong to the ethnos Tz'utuhil and they still conserve their popular culture and traditions of the pre Hispanic times. In this region of Guatemala, you will be able to appreciate the typical suits in their entire splendor, such as in Santiago where men wear white pants at knee -length with lilac vertical lines, long sleeve shirts and a hat. Women wear white “huipiles” (tunics) with geometric drawings, a red girth and a beautiful headdress.

In Santiago we will visit Maximon, famous character of the Mayan spirituality that represents the duality: the well and the wrong and is “Great Grandfather” of all the people of Santiago's town. At the present time it is worshipped as a pagan god by the natives, and it is represented carrying cigarette and liquor. This perverse" "saint's image is harbored in a pagan chapel in the town. Here we will have the opportunity to observe the rituals, petitions and offerings that the residents offer him. Also, we will visit the Catholic Church where the Catholic rites mixed with Mayan rituals

Then we will move to San Pedro's town that is located also in the Riveras of the Atitlan Lake, in the skirts of the San Pedro volcano.

San Pedro La Laguna Sightseeing Tour:

San Pedro La Laguna is a well-known town because the local artists who greatly manifest the primitive painting, capturing in their paintings the daily life of these indigenous towns with their typical suits, traditions and flowers.

San Pedro is a spectacular place located in the skirts of the volcano of the same name and gives you the opportunity to do a photography tour and to take magnificent pictures of the lake. Travel Lodge in Panajachel.

Day 4: Continuing our Guatemala Tour:
08:00 a.m. Departure Time toward to Chichicastenango, here you will enjoy the multicolored market and their traditions. The magic that surrounds the ancient, indigenous commercial process in a mixture of scent of flowers and incense that jointly with villa gers and astonished visitors turn the event into a magical moment. It is time to eat and exchange experiences. At 02:00 p.m. we will board our travel bus and head to Antigua Guatemala. Travel Lodge in Antigua Guatemala.

Day 5: Adventure Tour and Travel toward the Maya Land:
07:00 a.m. We will depart towards Copan through the east part of the country, amidst a changing landscape going past the mild weather of Antigua and Guatemala City until arriving at Chiquimula located in the east part of the country with its dry and warm weather. Then we will travel towards El Florido where we will cross the border to enter Honduran territory and we will head to our hotel to rest awhile.

In the afternoon we will take our tour to Copan, accompanied by our expert guide who will lead us through the ceremonial center, the ball court, the hieroglyphic stairway and the acropolis where you will be astonished by the revelation of one of Copan’s best kept secret: the discovery of the Rosalila Temple which was hidden for centuries and that now shows us the greatness and pride of the Maya people. After this we will have time to go shopping and have dinner. Travel Lodge in Copan, Honduras. Next page...

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