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> 6 days 5 nights
-- Highlands
-- Tikal
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> 7 days 6 nights
-- Highlands
-- Yaxhá
-- Tikal
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> 10 days 9 nights
-- Highlands
-- Caribbean
-- Mayan World

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Day 1: Guatemala City:
Our Travel Agent will meet you at La Aurora International Airport and will take you to the city of Antigua Guatemala. Travel Lodge in Antigua Guatemala.

Day 2: Beginning your Guatemala Vacations:
Good morning and breakfast: The refreshing mornings of the colonial city of Antigua Guatemala will welcome you into a new day. Get ready to take an exquisite breakfast accompanied by the incomparable Guatemalan coffee and the cordiality of our hosts.

Sightseeing Tour of Churches, Ruins and Museums:
After breakfast it is the moment to get ready to begin our Antigua walking Tour through the ruins and museums that together with the old cobbled streets keep the history of the city and their inhabitants.

Concluding our tour we will get ready to travel towards the heart of the Guatemala highlands, driving through incredibly colorful landscapes; indigenous people wearing their typical suits that shepherd their sheep and cows, hillsides planted with vegetables and flowers, towns that witnessed our history which is now captured in the paintings and crafts made by local artists We will arrive at our destination, the town of Panajachel, approximately at 18:30 hours. We will check in our hotel and then we will take a brief rest. After this we’ll get ready to have dinner in the restaurant of your election. Travel Lodge in Panajachel.

Day 3: Continuing your Guatemala Travel:
Today we will visit the towns around the Atitlan Lake. Panajachel is a town located in the shores of the most beautiful lake in the world, the lake Atitlan, which is surrounded by 12 towns (named like the 12 apostles) and by beautiful volcanoes such as Santiago, Toliman and San Pedro.

After breakfast, will begin the "Tour of the Towns" where we will visit San Juan La Laguna, Santiago Atitlan and San Pedro La Laguna, which are also located beside Atitlan’s lake.

San Juan La Laguna Sightseeing Tour:
We will explore this eco paradise hidden in the heart of the central highland, living witness of the amazing cultural inheritance of Guatemala’s natives. One of the few Guatemalan artisan groups still using natural dyes, the Adimat women's cooperative is known for its dedication to maintaining traditional weaving practices.

This group of 25 women in the community of San Juan la Laguna produces popular goods such as scarves, yoga mat bags, hammocks, and placemats. Women collect the berries, bark and other materials they use to dye their products from the mountains overlooking Lake Atitlan, on the shores of which their community is located.

The Adimat cooperative has been recognized by various area organizations and government representatives for its support of local development initiatives. In particular, the group uses profits from its sales through Mercado Global to fund a scholarship program for orphans and other local children who would otherwise not be able to attend school. With the help of these scholarship recipients, the cooperative also organizes a monthly litter removal campaign in the community and along the shores of lake. Next Page...

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