Specially curated for the conscious and awakened travelers with a refined taste for ancient cultures, indigenous traditions, wellness activities, deep contact with mother nature and the magical, peaceful, and healing experience of visiting ancient sacred sites.
The Mayan Sacred Sites are considered to be one of the most energetic places of transformation on planet earth, and with this active, meaningful and rewarding journey you are going to understand why.
So get ready to transform yourself by deeply connecting with Copan (Honduras / World Heritage Site), Quirigua (Guatemala / World Heritage Site), the sunrise of the Mayan Biosphere Reserve on the top of a massive temple at Tikal (Guatemala / World Heritage Site), plus your visit to Antigua (World Heritage Site), Iximche (or the Mayan tree of life) and the marvelous Atitlan Lake with its indigenous communities and unique wellness activities.
Available all-year-round.
Guatemala & Honduras.
GUA (arrival & departure).
08 days – 07 nights.
Leisure.
Sacred sites, ancient history, nature, adventure, spirituality, wellness, culture and community.
Luxury hotels.
Van / Microbus, boat & airplane.
Day 01: Guatemala city & Antigua Guatemala (World Heritage Site):
Welcome (GUA airport) – drive to Antigua – free & easy time – Luxury Hotel Antigua.
Day 02: Copan (World Heritage Site) Honduras:
Drive to Copan – border crossing – Copan expedition – Luxury Hotel Copan.
Days 03: Quirigua (World Heritage Site) and El Peten:
Border crossing – drive to Quirigua – Quirigua expedition – drive to El Peten – Luxury Hotel El Peten.
Day 04: El Petén:
Free & easy day – Luxury Hotel El Peten.
Day 05: Tikal (World Heritage Site) and Antigua Guatemala:
Tikal sunrise expedition – Isla de Flores visit – quick-local flight to Guatemala city (GUA) – drive to Antigua – Luxury Hotel Antigua.
Day 06: Iximche mayan sacred site & Lake Atitlan:
Drive to Atitlan – Iximche visit – boat ride Lake Atitlan – San Juan La Laguna visit – Luxury Hotel Lake Atitlan.
Day 07: Lake Atitlan & Antigua Guatemala:
Paddle board – Fire and cacao ceremony – boat ride- drive to Antigua – Luxury Hotel Antigua.
Day 08: Antigua Guatemala & Guatemala city.
Goodbye – drive to GUA airport – Buen Camino.
Welcome by your team at the Aurora International Airport (GUA) and transportation to the cosmopolitan and colonial City of La Antigua Guatemala (UNESCO World Heritage Site), a “pueblo magico” full of charm and probably the most visited one in the country.
Free and easy time to explore your colonial surroundings (try to arrive before midday to enjoy the sunset in Antigua with tea, coffee, or drinks), begin to connect with the local people and international community, and prepare yourself for your upcoming transformative journey.
Meals: Wellcome dinner.
Lodging: Luxury Hotel in Antigua.
Activities: Welcome transfer and sightseeing.
Morning breakfast and your transportation through the cataloged mystic west of Guatemala until its neighbor’s brother country, Honduras.
Borders and customs formalities check, lunch and your exploration of the magical Copan (UNESCO World Heritage Site) with an outstanding universal value and a mystical aura, that is still somewhat lost, and it’s now being rediscovered.
Considered by many as one of the most spectacular cities of the Maya, it is internationally acclaimed because of the maximum artistic expressions represented on multidimensional stone carving, for the elaboration of unique stelaes, ceremonial altars and more.
Itts main complex consists of the Acropolis and plazas with an impressive stadium opening onto a mound with numerous richly sculptured monoliths, and the Hieroglyphic Stairway Plaza, with a monumental stairway that includes the most extended text in the Mayan world.
Since the sites sit in an unbelievably lush valley, it is easy to spot a variety of local animals that roam around the ruins, among those are monkeys, guacamayas (large parrots), macaws, sloths, and peccaries, among others.
Meals: Breakfast and dinner.
Lodging: Luxury Hotel in Copan.
Activities: Transportation to Honduras, border crossing, Copan expedition.
Morning breakfast, borders and customs formalities check and the continuation of your journey through the Caribbean side of Guatemala with an infinite number of lush natural areas and way much more Caribbean fruits and vegetables until Quirigua.
A privileged Mayan city developed next to the Rio Grande (Big River) or Motagua where the most important stone for the Mayans is located, the jade.
Historically, Quirigua (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) was deeply connected to Copan, and is a marvelous Mayan sacred site and that is definitely a must for the awakened travelers’ with knowledge and passion for the ancient arts.
It is also considered as the home of the biggest ancient monuments of all the Americas, standing out especially its stelas (actually books written in stone telling us the site’s history) in the Mayan world.
The famous stela E that is almost 11 meters high and the zoomorph P (a supreme carved art piece).
Drive to Rio Dulce (the Sweet River), relax, jump on the water, lunch and continue your way to the Mayan lowlands and lush jungles of El Peten until the natural reserve of El Cerro Cahui (a protected area) located next to the crystal clear waters of Lake Peten Itza.
Meals: Breakfast and dinner.
Lodging: Luxury Hotel in El Peten.
Activities: Transportation back to Guatemala, border crossing, Quirigua Expedition, and Rio Dulce sightseeing.
Breakfast and a free and easy morning to keep enjoying and exploring your unique surroundings, so take some time for yourself, swim or rest, read or hang out and integrate your experiences.
Meals: Breakfast and dinner.
Lodging: Luxury Hotel in El Peten.
Activities: Lake Peten Itza (free & easy).
Early morning transportation and exploration of the impressive sacred Mayan site of Tikal (the City of the voices), a UNESCO World Heritage site that was one of the most powerful Mayan kingdoms.
So get ready for the unique and rewarding experience of seeing and feeling the Mayan jungle’s dawn from the highest part of Templo IV (or the Bicephalous Serpent).
Tikal is a really strong and energetical site, whose history begins around 2000 years A.C., and today, archaeologists are still working on the site, finding day to day more evidence of our ancient civilization.
Connect with its mysticism, magic and decipher the greatest mysteries and enigmas of this impressive civilization as you walk through its dense jungle.
Among its remarkable structures excels the Great Jaguar (or Temple 1), an icon for the Mayas, located in the Central Acropolis, Temple 2 (or the Masks), the Lost World, the Window Palace, and the Temple 4 (or the two-headed serpents) that it’s considered one of the tallest pre-Columbian temples of all the Americas.
Drive back to El Remate for lunch, followed by your visit to la Isla de Flores before your afternoon local flight back to Guatemala city and Antigua.
Meals: Breakfast and dinner.
Accommodation: Luxury Hotel in Antigua.
Activities: Tikal sunrise expedition, Isla de Flores visit and quick-local flight (FRS – GUA).
Morning typical breakfast and the beginning of your journey through the Mayan highlands, most known as the sectors of the indigenous Mayan culture alive. Areas surrounded by beautiful landscapes of mountains, volcanoes, indigenous communities, and all kinds of crops until Iximche (Ixim = Corn & Chee = Tree).
A very important and energetic sacred site where the ancient Mayans founded their last capital, and your exploration of its palaces, plazas, ball game, its museum, and its fire ceremonial zone. A place full of history and mysticism.
Later on, continue your way to the town of Panajachel, located on the shores of one of the most beautiful lakes in the world, Atitlan, and the place where you are going to take a boat ride and cross its crystalline waters until the small, picturesque, and charming town of San Juan La Laguna.
Lunch and a cultural afternoon of ancestral knowledge by visiting and learning from their community social projects, focused on preserving alternative and natural medicine, primitivist painting, natural dyeing, and beekeeping.
Meals: Breakfast and dinner.
Lodging: Luxury Hotel in Lake Atitlan.
Activities: Iximche visit, boat rides (Lake Atitlan) and San Juan (tour & workshops).
Aldous Huxley described Atitlan as “too much of a good thing, it touches the limit of the permissibly picturesque”.
Sunrise paddle board on the Lake’s crystalline and calm waters surrounded by its majestic 03 volcanoes (San Pedro, Atitlan, and Toliman).
Experience the day-to-day life of the Lake inhabitants, standing out among them their multiple farmers and fishers, followed by a boat ride to visit the holistic town of San Marcos La Laguna, a small but charming shire where the international community and the local people converge for your immersion in the Mayan sacred fire and your connection with the spirit of the “kakaw” or cocoa also known by the ancient Mayans as the “flesh of the Gods” and consider pure medicine for your heart and soul.
Lunch and your boat ride back to Panajachel and your drive to Antigua and because it is your last night in Guatemala, you are going to have the perfect time celebrating life and transformation with a delicious goodbye dinner.
Meals: Breakfast and dinner.
Lodging: Luxury Hotel in Antigua.
Activities: Paddleboard, Mayan sacred fire and cacao ceremony, boat rides (Lake Atitlan) and goodbye dinner.
*Note: During this day you need to take an antigen test to fly back home on the next day, and your team is going to help you to coordinate that.
Morning breakfast and your final transfer to the Airport.
Goodbye from your team and until the next time! Buen Camino.
Meals: breakfast.
Lodging: none.
Activities: Exit transfer and sightseeing.
INCLUDED:
– 24/7 guest support.
– High profile tour leader in English and experienced local guides.
– All breakfasts and dinners.
– All the activities.
– All transfers between hotels and activities.
– Border crossing (GUA – HON & HON – GUA).
– One way quick-local flight (FRS – GUA).
– Boat rides.
– Plus way more thrills and surprises along the way.
– 07 Nights accommodation:
-03 nights in Antigua Guatemala at:
Hotel Casa Santo Domingo or Hotel El Convento (double or twin shared rooms).
– 01 night in Copan at:
Hotel Marina Copan (in a double or twin shared room).
– 02 nights in El Peten at:
Hotel Las Lagunas or Hotel La Lancha (in a double or twin shared room).
– 01 night in Lake Atitlan at:
Hotel Atitlan or La Fortuna Atitlan (double or twin shared rooms).
NOT INCLUDED:
– International flights and airport taxes.
– Days 01 – 08 lunches.
– All the drinks at restaurants.
– Personal expenses of any kind.
– Antigen or PCR test for Covid-19 in Guatemala (to take your flight back home).
– Departure taxes at the border from Honduras to Guatemala.
– The not described services at our sample itinerary.
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– Travel with your heart and mind open and be receptive to all the lessons that these sacred lands have for you.
– No matter where you are, always travel with health & travel insurance.
-Tell all your friends, family, and community about it. We recommend having this experience with a group of your closest friends because it’s going to connect all of you on a more profound and higher level.
– Follow the instructions of your expert Tour leader / spiritual guide and local guides. They really know what they are doing. Ask them, question them, and also connect with them. They are going to surprise you.
– Be prepared for the tropics and pack multiple changes of clothes:
Clothing for warm and hot weather during the day: two pairs of pants, two pairs of shorts, three changes of shirts, a rain poncho, a swimsuit, and a sweater or jacket to wear at night. Walking shoes, hiking boots, sneakers, and sandals are all acceptable.
Quick-dry clothing (especially a pair of convertible pants that zip at the knee to convert into shorts) is recommended for your visit to the tropical areas.
Always bring a towel, and please don’t forget sunblock, bug spray, a flashlight, a sun hat, a lightweight raincoat or poncho, anti-diarrheal medicine, and wet wipes.
*Important reminder: Be conscious of what you pack, and always keep sustainability in mind.
If it catches your attention, leaves you dreaming about it, and makes you smile, just let us know, and we can begin the process of tailoring it.
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