GUATEMALA COMMUNITY TOURISM
GUATEMALA COMMUNITY TOURISM
All tours are private. Tours include: private transportation, certified tour guide, entrance fee to sites and experiences. Prices change depending on the number of travelers.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at La Antigua Guatemala. Together we travel for 1 hour to Santo Domingo Xenacoj and meet with The Council of weavers. They will be sharing the importance of weaving preservation and their effort in obtaining the rights of the collective intelectual property law. Tour includes private transportation, tour guide, weaving experience and traditional lunch. 6 hours tour. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at La Antigua Guatemala. We will travel to San Antonio Aguas Calientes (30 minutes away from La Antigua Guatemala). Experience in our tour, learning step by step the process of back strap weaving in Guatemala. The tour includes a talk about the community children weaving school. Tour includes private transportation, tour guide, weaving experience and traditional lunch. 4 hours tour. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at La Antigua Guatemala. We will travel to San Antonio Aguas Calientes (30 minutes away from La Antigua Guatemala). Immerse yourself in the weaving world learning from the women the value of textiles in their daily life and the importance for their identity. Tour includes private transportation, tour guide, weaving experience and traditional lunch. 4 hours tour. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at La Antigua Guatemala. We will travel to San Antonio Aguas Calientes (30 minutes away from La Antigua Guatemala) to meet with a local weaver. Enjoy a one on one back strap loom weaving workshop and start your weaving skills in Guatemala. Tour includes private transportation, tour guide, weaving workshop and traditional lunch. 4 hours workshop. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City. Travel through the highlands of Guatemala and learn the traditions of weaving art. This travel journey is supporting the Council of Weavers of Guatemala. Our goal is to keep alive the weaving identity of Maya communities. We visit Guatemala City, Sacatepéquez and Sololá. Tour includes private transportation, tour guide, weaving experiences and workshops, meals, 4 hotel nights. 4days tour. Minimum 2 visitors.
All tours are private. Tours include: private transportation, certified tour guide, entrance fee to sites and experiences. Prices change depending on the number of travelers.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City. We start our tour at the ancient archaeological site and ceremonial center of "Kaminal Juyu". We continue with the visit of the relief map, a walking tour at the Historical Center and end our tour exploring the Central Market in the City. Tour includes private transportation, tour guide, entrance fee to sites. 4 hours tour. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City. We start our tour visiting Ixchel Museum to learn and appreciate the history of Guatemala Textiles. We continue with the visit of Popol Vuh Museum with a wonderful collection of ancient ceramic and colonial Art. Tour includes private transportation, tour guide, entrance fee to museums. 4 hours tour. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at La Antigua Guatemala. We will travel to San Antonio Aguas Calientes (30 minutes away from La Antigua Guatemala). Continue to a local home for a cooking experience preparing the most important ceremonial dish of town, PEPIAN. Tour includes private transportation, tour guide, cooking experience and traditional lunch. 4 hours tour. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at La Antigua Guatemala. We will travel to San Juan Del Obispo and walk to the Loquat farm to enjoy the history of the process of this tropical fruit. Later join a community project and taste different tropical drinks. Tour includes private transportation, tour guide, agro tourism experience and traditional lunch. 4 hours Tour. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at La Antigua Guatemala. We will start our visit with the local market of Santa Maria de Jesus. Later we continue to visit some local artisans in the communities of San Felipe de Jesus and Jocotenango. Tour includes private transportation, tour guide, artisans experiences. 4 hours tour. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at La Antigua Guatemala. Walking tour visiting La Antigua Guatemala Central Plaza and surroundings. Continue to a Chocolate Workshop and Coffee Tour. Tour includes private transportation, tour guide, chocolate workshop and coffee experience and traditional lunch. 6 hours tour. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at La Antigua Guatemala. We will travel to San Juan Comalapa, Chimaltenango (1.5 hours away from Guatemala City). During our tour we will meet with local naif painters, sharing with them their history and art. Tour includes private transportation, tour guide, painters experience and traditional lunch. 6 hours tour. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at La antigua Guatemala. We will travel to Chichicastenango stoping the first day to visit Iximche. Next day we will explore the community, the colorful local market and transfer back to Guatemala City. Tour includes private transportation, tour guide, cultural experiences and traditional lunch. 2 days tour. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at La antigua Guatemala. We will travel to Panajachel in Lake Atitlan. First day we visit San Antonio and Santa Catarina Palopó. Second day is our visit to San Andrés Semetabaj. Our last day we interact with the community of Santa Cruz La Laguna. Tour includes private transportation, tour guide, cultural experiences and traditional lunch. 3 days tour. Minimum 2 visitors.
All tours are private. Tours include: private transportation, certified tour guide, entrance fee to sites and experiences. Prices change depending on the number of travelers.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at La Antigua Guatemala. Hike Pacaya Volcano (50 kms away from Guatemala City), it's one of the four active volcanoes in Guatemala. If we are lucky in our hike, we will appreciate lava and smoke. Tour includes private transportation, tour guide, entrance fee to volcano and local community guide. 8 hour tour. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at Peten. Transfer to Tikal National Park. Archaeological tour in complex Q, main plaza, templo IV, lost world, plaza of the seven temples, central acropolis. Picnic lunch included. After lunch transfer to airport in Peten and fly back to Guatemala City or to your hotel in Peten. Tour includes private transportation, tour guide, entrance fee to Tikal, local flight and lunch. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Peten. Early morning transfer to Tikal National Park. After arrival birding walk inside the Park, visiting the best hot spots in the site. Tour includes private transportation, tour guide, entrance fee to Tikal and picnic lunch. 8 hours tour. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at Peten. Archaeological experience visiting Tikal National Park. After lunch we transfer to the Hotel to rest and later appreciate sunset. Next day we continue to Yaxha National Park, walking through the causeways, plazas and monuments, learning about Maya archaeology. Includes: local flight (leaving from Guatemalaprivate transportation, tour guide, entrance fee to Tikal and Yaxha, 3 meals, 1 hotel night. 2 days tour. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel Guatemala City or at Peten. We travel early in the morning to visit the community of Uaxactún and do a birding experience. In the afternoon we travel to see the sunset in Tikal. Next morning we do birding in Tikal and the archaeological visit to the site. Includes: local flight (leaving from Guatemala City), private transportation, certified tour guide, entrance fee to Uaxactun and Tikal, 4 meals, 1 hotel night. 2 days tour. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel Guatemala City or at Peten. One lifetime adventure through the jungle of the Maya Biosphere Reserve. Our goal is to reach and climb the second biggest pyramid in volume in the world "LA DANTA". Includes: private transportation, certified tour guide, community guide, mules, meals, 4 camping nights, 1 hotel night. 5 days tour. Minimum 2 visitors.
All tours are private. Tours include: private transportation, certified tour guide, hotels or home stays, entrance fee to sites and experiences. Prices change depending on the number of travelers.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at La Antigua Guatemala. We will travel to Rabinal to witness the Maya drama Rabinal Achí, pre-hispanic dance that keeps an important significance in the daily life of the Maya. The festivity takes place the third week of January. Includes: private transportation, certified tour guide, community festivity experiences, meals, 2 hotel nights. 3 days journey. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at La Antigua Guatemala. We will travel to the most important Maya Women Event in Guatemala (Rabin Ajaw). The event takes place the third week of July. Includes: private transportation, certified tour guide, community festivity experiences, meals, 3 hotel nights. 4 days journey. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at La Antigua Guatemala. Maya brotherhoods are ancestral authorities that preserved their traditions and culture generation through generation. Join us and share experiences with the local brotherhood in town. The festivity takes place on August. Includes: private transportation, certified tour guide, community festivity experience, traditional lunch. 6 hours journey. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at La Antigua Guatemala. The dance of Palo Volador of Joyabaj, is a community festivity that show us the relationship of the Cosmos, the Maya Calendar and nature. The festivity takes place the second week of August. Includes: private transportation, certified tour guide, community festivity experiences, meals, 2 hotel nights. 3 days journey. Minimum 2 visitors.
Join our tour guide in your hotel in Guatemala City or at La Antigua Guatemala. We will follow the path of Las Orquideas (women kite makers group), to appreciate the art of making and flying giant kites in Guatemala. The festivity takes place November first. Includes: private transportation, certified tour guide, kite festival experiences, traditional lunch. 8 hours journey. Minimum 2 visitors.
Community Experiences are done directly with the local community host, no transportation or tour guide are included.
Join our community host in San Pedro La Laguna and experience a morning learning about the cultivation of corn and its importance in our Mayan Worldview. End the experience with a gastronomic sample of corn-based products.
Join our local family host in San Pedro La Laguna and experience the process of making chocolate with the ancestral Maya recipe.
Join our local community host in the town of San Pedro La Laguna and learn the complete growing and process of Coffee . End your experience tasting a high quality cup of Guatemalan Coffee.
Join our local community guide in Santiago Atitlan and experience a textile presentation, learning the process of foot loom and embroidery weaving in the community.
Support the conservation of Lake Atitlan by joining the tulle farmers association in the community of Santiago and have the experience of getting in a small Cayuco and planting tulle in the shores of the lake.
Join our community local guide in Santiago Atitlan and explore the protected area Mirador Rey Tepepul. Hiking and birding is our goal for the day, if you are lucky you can even find the National Bird of Guatemala (The Quetzal Bird).
Join our women association host in San Juan La Laguna and enjoy your free time doing weaving natural dye workshop. It's not only fun but colorful.
Join our local Coop host and enjoy a coffee experience in the town of San Juan La Laguna. You will walk through the plantation, drying patios and a small coffee roasting room. End the experience with a great coffee cup.
Join our local community guide in San Juan La Laguna and support the conservation of Bees in Guatemala. No rush during your visit, the more you stay the more you learn.