Guatemala Tours

Guatemala Cultural

5 Days and 4 nights 

Activities:

Native market – Live culture - Sustainable Cultural Tour – Culture and History

Highlights

Antigua Guatemala – Chichicastenango – Lake Atitlan

Day 1:	Arrival – Transfer to Antigua Guatemala
Day 2:	Chichicastenango
Day 3:	Lake Atitlan (San Juan and Santiago Atitlan)
Day 4:	Antigua Guatemala
Day 5:	Back Home

This is a wonderful tour through the heart of the Guatemala highlands, driving through incredibly colorful landscapes: indigenous people wearing their typical suits that shepherd their sheep and dairy cows, hillsides planted with vegetables and flowers, towns which witnessed our history and can now been seen in the paintings and crafts made by local artists. Here you will enjoy the multicolored market and their traditions. The ancient, indigenous commercial process of flower scents and incense provide for a magical moment. 

Scenic boat ride across Lake Atitlan 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 the village of Santiago visiting the Maya God Maximon and learn about the textiles, spiritualism and beliefs of the T’zutujil Maya. 

In Antigua you will enjoy walking tour visiting ruins, churches and museums. In this city the stories and legends of the colonial times are still present along with the old paved streets.

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Festival Tours - Travel Guatemala

FESTIVALTOURS – TRAVEL GUATEMALA

Every year on November 1st, most of the Mayan villages celebrate cultural religious activities showing their respect and devotion to their ancestors.

In Guatemala, heart of the Mayan World, these events have been developed throughout history and remain as a tradition transmitted from parents to children. 

The importance, mysticism and the amazing colorful of these cultural events have created great interest on many visitors from different nationalities that prepare their luggage every year to be witnesses of these events; and some of them get involved on the process and development turning their trip into a dipping to our Mayan culture roots.

We can mention some destinations where these amazing cultural activities take place:

• Santiago Sacatepéquez – Giant Kites
• Sumpango Sacatepéquez – Giant Kites
• Todos Santos Cuchumatán – El Venado and El Torito dances together with the traditional race of horses are presented.
• San José Petén – The Holly Skull

You are already on time to plan your vacations at Mayan World, contact us and our travel advisors will fit your trip to these wonderful events.

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Tikal Grew and Decline

1. Tikal Grew and Decline

The Maya city of Tikal, located in a dense subtropical forest in the center of the state of Petén in northern Guatemala, was one of the most important cities in the Mayan lowlands.

Its first permanent inhabitant settled in the area around the year 900 B.C. It saw its greatest growth between A.D. 700-800. Many of the structures you will explore today were constructed during that time.

The hot a humid climate throughout most of the year made the forest ideal habitat for an abundance of animal and plants species which provided food, medicine and construction material. The city was built on elevates areas, which were surrounded by “bajos”, or slight depressions that flood during the rainy season.

The center of Tikal, with an area of 16 km², has approximately 4,000 structures, including plazas, temples, palaces, ball courts, causeways and pyramids. Its population has been estimated at 90,000 people, including the living areas around the city.

Tikal was continuously inhabited for almost 1,800 years. Its history includes powerful rulers, great alliances, victorious battles, defeats, economic power and the monumental architecture that secured its legacy for centuries.

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Ceibal - Aguateca - Dos Pilas
Three days two nights:

Departure: October 29

An adventure trip enjoying rivers and streams, Mayan cities, steleaes with impressive art, all this surrounded by one of the most beautiful forest of the region.

The river's trip invites us to wake up the adventurous spirit, open your eyes to be able to see the crocodiles and families of turtles taking the sun in an old trunk, variety of aquatic birds waiting secretly for the first fish that can be easy prey, indigenous communities lost in the back of the snake-like rivers, children greeting the travelers, this and many more in three days of adventure in this world of the green mystery.

We Visit: Sayaxche, Ceibal National Park, archaeological site of Aguateca, archaeological site of Dos Pilas.


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El Mirador Helicopter Tour.

In search of the Kan Kingdom

Departures:

• October 1st.
• November 1st.

An exceptional adventure aboard of bell ranger helicopter that will transport you over the fantastic and millenarian Mayan jungle in search of the lost city of El Mirador, a natural wonder declared cultural heritage by the UNESCO, on basis of its exuberant jungle and the great variety of wild life that inhabit and the archeological value of the biggest city of the Mayan world.

Please feel free to contact us for pricing and trip details....

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Martsam Tour & Travel at The International French Travel Market:

The Mayan World DMC and Tour Operator, Martsam Tour & Travel invites you to visit the Guatemala´s stand and learn about the best destinations in the Mayan World.

Our Representative in Europe Marie-Laure Pluvy will be at our stand and it will be a pleasure for her to meet you there and let you know about our services in Central America, our cultural destinations and opportunities for tour operators, travel agencies, incentive companies and wholesalers that Central America offers as one of the best destinations in Latin America.

Central America is an amazing destinations for Archaeology, Nature, Culture and Adventure, for groups and independent travelers.

See you there

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How to know what the Mayas thought about 2012?

The Mayas were a splendid, brilliant and amazing civilization who reigned for over 17 centuries on the Mesoamerican area.

They were an advanced and mysterious civilization compared to now, they dominated and knew perfectly the science world and were great mathematicians, artists, builders and astronomers.

They left very important treasures for us like the calendar that they developed based on observations of space and the positions of certain planets and stars.

They were great gauges of the time and possessed three Mayan calendars, the calendar of 260 days Tzoolkin, the Haab of 365 days, just like our Gregorian calendar and the Mayan long count calendar.

Their mathematical and astronomical advances along with the astronomical observation allowed them to set centuries ago a calendar an almost perfect accuracy.

Through their calendars, the Mayas with an incredible precision set the end of their calendar and their culture and left a date for the end of the world which is on Friday, December 21, 2012.

The Mayan long count calendar establishes as a starting point on August 13, 3114 to. C. and ends on December 21, 2012, a total of 5125 years in which they set a period of one world, after this period our planet Earth and humans will change radically.

They set it as the end of the Fifth Sun or the Fourth World on December 21, 2012. But this date is not the end; this date marks the beginning of the Fifth World.

On one of the most memorable events and known prophecies of these civilization you can´t miss being at the right place, one of the greatest and most known cites, Uaxactun, famous for being the most precise astronomical observatory in the central Maya lowlands.

It will be one of the most spectacular experiences you will have, being in touch with nature and in the middle of a conmemorable and unique architecture.

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Allow us to take you through the Maya Cosmovision and receive the knowledge of this fascinating event in a tour through the most impressive cultural destinations of Guatemala.

You can be part on one of the most memorable events and known prophecies of these civilization in an immersion of their sacred rituals and predictions of the shamans of our Mayan culture about this mystic and conmemorable date.

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