Day 2:

El Pilar and Chocolate Workshop

A representative from Authentic Travel will be waiting for you at the hotel reception to transfer you to El Pilar, this is a small paradise located in the mountain forest of Guatemala and just 10 minutes away from the center of La Antigua Guatemala.

It has an infrastructure of trails for bird watching, which spread through the organic plantations of coffee, mountain forest, and cloud forest as well.

The vegetation of this reserve is mainly constituted of coffee, pine, and oaks, settling at an altitudinal range from 1,710 to 9,500 feet above sea level.

One of the main attractions in Finca El Pilar is in the zone of hummingbird feeders where it is possible to spot a wide variety of hummingbird species that inhabit the area feeding oneself simultaneously, which represents a great opportunity for birdwatchers.

After visiting El Pilar, your guide will lead you to the Chocolate Workshop place where you can learn the origin of chocolate and its history.

You will help to roast and grind nature’s treasure with stone tools by participating in the chocolate demonstration and making your own chocolate right from the Cacao bean.

After de demonstration and interaction, you will leave with your handmade chocolates, customized how you like them, and bring them back to your friends and family.

Free afternoon.

Overnight in Antigua Guatemala.

Day 4:

San Juan y Santiago – Lake Atitlan

This morning you will take a scenic boat ride across Lake Atitlan (30min) to the village of San Juan La Laguna where you can visit the women’s textile cooperative to see hand weaving and the natural dye process.

Visit the studios / homes of the celebrated naïf painters, and the then continue to Santiago Village.

After lunch you will continue your tour to the village visiting the Maya God Maximon and learn about the textiles, spiritualism and beliefs of the T’zutujil Maya.

Each year a different "brotherhood" has the privilege of taking care of their God, therefore, his location change.

At Santiago have the chance to be an artist and paint your own Maya design on a clean canvas with help of the locals, to create an amazing souvenir where all family will have so much fun.

After the tour you will be transferred back to your hotel.

Overnight  in Santiago Atitlan

Day 6:

Tikal Tour

After breakfast, a representative from Martsam Travel will be waiting for you at the hotel reception to transfer you Tikal National Park.

You will enjoy a guided tour thorough the paths and main areas of the most important city of the Mayan World. Here you will find that nature and archaeology are wonderfully blended.

You will be able to see 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.

Overnight in Flores area

Day 8:

Horseback Riding & Xunantunich

After breakfast a representative will pick you up at the hotel to begin your Horseback riding adventure. Ride through wide open farmlands as well as covered jungle trails, which follow the Mopan River.

Along the way you will visit Xunantunich Archaeological Site, which is located across the green crystalline waters of the Mopan River; it’s the largest ceremonial center in the Belize River Valley, located on a natural limestone ridge providing a fantastic panoramic scene of the surrounding of the country from its hilltop location.

You will enjoy your tour through one of the most important sites in Belize, dating with an essentially classic period ceremonial centre with three ceremonial plazas enclosed by house mounds, pyramids, and palaces, the largest decorated castle with stucco friezes and masks of Classic style. After the tour you will return to the hotel.

Overnight in San Ignacio area.