San Juan La Laguna is a frame of majestic landscapes that lead to Lake Atitlán and the volcanoes, mountains and hills that surround it, including the Cerro Rostro Maya, which is named after its silhouette, which looks like the profile of a person looking towards heaven. It is a rocky mount that during the wet season is perceived of all shades of green, and during the dry season is painted brown.
 
Accommodation Services

Live with a Guatemalan family in San Juan La Laguna and immerse yourself in the Mayan culture, you will learn about our customs and traditions.

 

 

 

The Mendoza kitchen in their home in Todos Santos Cuchumatán, Guatemala, is the center of family life, and his wife's cooking, Staying with a Guatemalan family will give you the chance to learn first-hand about Guatemalan life. Our families provide a private room, three meals a day.

They can accommodate vegetarians, vegans and people with food allergies..

 

 

 

Staying with a Guatemalan family will give you the chance to learn first-hand about Guatemalan life. Our families provide a private room, three meals a day, wifi, hot water.

They can accommodate vegetarians, vegans and people with food allergies.  In most of the houses, will share a bathroom. All the families are on Quetzaltenango city.

 

 

 

Enjoy the Great Experience with a real guatemalan family in totonicapan!!  Stay with us and know al about this beautifull & colorful culture, amaizing traditions, craft workshop and warm people.  Totonicapan is a great way to create your new adventure in Guatemala

 

 

A great way to immerse themselves in Guatemalan life, experience their culture and customs. Meals in the home will be prepared by the mother of the family and you will have the opportunity to enjoy breakfast and dinner meals at home with the family.

 

 

SAINTS and facades of Antigua, a guided tour to church fronts

A guided tour explaining the life of saints , symbols and attributes. Some of the saints come from the bible, others from church history. Images are not placed arbitrarily but are selected to tell a real story! Do you want to know the story?

Pedro Nolasco standing high in the façade of the La Merced church.

Why? The Virgin Mary somewhere very visible and centrally located in the front section of the old cathedral with the still not born son and talking about not born... Do you know who NONNATUS is? Also to be found in a church in Antigua! Strange enough St. Peter and St. Paul are nearly always companions next to the main entrance of any church … and the same can be said from St. Domingo and St.Fransisco. Do you want to see a real angel, get yourself to Santa Clara church and Convent.

Somewhere the beloved Pedro Betancourt, now a Saint, can also be found. Not too difficult to know if you remember to which order he belongs. From archangels to apostles, from founders of religious orders to martyrs and preachers. You can know Antigua in a very different way!

This tour gives you input in the life of many saints, but not limited to them. You will walk through ruins and know more about colonial architecture as well. In other words, a real cultural experience.

Daily: at 09.30 am or 14.00 pm from your hotel or homestay
Duration > 3 to 4 hours, depending how interested you are!
Price
1 person > 50 $
2 persons > 25 $ each
3 persons > 20 $ each
4 persons > 18 $ each
5 or more persons > 15 $ each

Does NOT include entrance fees to the sites

The farm’s most famous tour for more than 9 years, where visitors will learn about coffee from the plantation to the cup. Learn about the history, cultivation and processing of coffee on our farm, with over 130 years of tradition that dates made back to 1870.

On a walk will visit the nursery and planting coffee, then made a tour of the wet and drying yards, the dry mill and manual sorting area. Later visit the Tostaduría and packing area, closing with the cupping lab. The tour ends sipping a cup of the best coffee in the world occurred in Finca Filadelfia, the Genuine Antigua, in the preparation of your choice: American or Espresso.

Available: Everyday.
Pick up place: Convento de Las Capuchinas or San José El Viejo.
Departure time: 08:20 AM / 10:20 AM / 13:20 Hrs.
Tour duration: no more than 2 hours.
Includes: Full transportation, bilingual guide, a cup of coffee at the end of the tour.

Price per person: US$25.00 >No minimum of passengers.

This tour will visit the modern Guatemala City. Founded in 1777, it is the fourth city in Guatemalan history. We will see the museum of anthropology and ethnography near to airport. Here you will find some of most exquisite pieces of all the archeological sites of the Petén area.

History, culture and traditions

We go to the civic center where you will see the justice palace, the national bank, Guatemala's City Hall, social security building. We continue downtown for watch the beautiful Palacio Nacional de la Cultura you can see in this place the official saloons for all the diplomatic events, the cathedral and main plaza too.

We will drive through Avenida de la Reforma, Centro Civico y Centro Historico.

Information

Availability	Every day
Departure times	08:00 am
Departure point	Your hotel/address
Duration	Approx. 5 hours
Price	45 USD p.p. - minimum 3 persons 55 USD p.p. - minimum 2 persons
Included	Return transport from Antigua
	Guide

+10 USD per group for an English-speaking guide

This tour will visit interesting towns and plantations around Antigua. Our first stop will be at San Juan del Obispo. We will visit the monastery of the first bishop of Guatemala, Francisco Marroquin.

We go on to the Ciudad Vieja. We explain to you the sad history of this town, which was the second city founded by Spanish in Guatemala. We visit the organic macadamia farm were we learn about many medical functions of the macadamia nut. We visit the town San Antonio Aguas Calientes to visit the local cooperative market. We end our tour in a Jade factory, where you can see how Mayans worked in the past and how it is done now.

 You have a few hours to spend during your connection ?

Layover Time in La Aurora International Airport

Basic Guatemala City Tour:

 

Needed time: 03 Hours

Possible every day from 07.00 to 15.00 hours

This tour will take through the historical district of Guatemala City, you will visit the central park, one of the most beautiful of Central America, and you will get the chance to visit the roots of the fourth capital of Guatemala. The tour to the National Palace and the visit to the Cathedral are the highlights of this tour. You will also get the chance to get a sightseeing of the rest of the historical district and the civil which includes building and murals from the most famous and important Guatemalan Architects. 

Includes:

Transportation GO AND RETURN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Bilingual Guide/driver and Entrance Fees

Prices per Person:

02 -03 Pax	US$. 30	06 – 07 Pax	US$. 20
04 -05 Pax	US$. 25	08 – 09 Pax	US$. 15

 

 

 

Natural History Museum Tour

Needed time: 02 Hours

Possible from Tuesday to Sunday from 08.00 to 15.00 hours

Located really close from Guatemala City Airport, is the first museum of Guatemala the Natural History Museum,  here you will find amazing expositions of: Origin of the Universe or Big Bang, Origin and Evolution of Life on Earth, Origin of Continents and Earthquakes,  Volcanoes: "Guatemala, land of volcanoes, the volcanoes of Guatemala What is a volcano and how it formed?",  Rocks and Minerals: "Guatemala is rich in its soil and subsoil, observe different rocks and minerals and are part of our natural resources.", Area of ​​Paleontology,  Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians,  Hall of the Birds, Night Animals , Hall of Mammals, Botanical Gardens, Butterflies,  Living Tree, Exhibition Duck Poc: "Species endemic to Guatemala.Extinct species, such as the misuse of natural resources", Hall of Ecosystems, Life Zone and Protected Areas: "The importance and distribution, History of the Museum and Temporary Exhibition Area

Includes :

Transportation GO AND RETURN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Bilingual Guide/driver and Entrance Fees

Prices per Person:

02 -03 Pax	US$. 35	06 – 07 Pax	US$. 25
04 -05 Pax	US$. 30	08 – 09 Pax	US$. 20

 

 

Miraflores Museum Tour

Needed time: 03 hours

Possible from Tuesday to Sunday from 08.00 to 17.00 hours

Miraflores Museum opened its door in October 2002, after signing a specific agreement with the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Guatemala. Most pieces on display were discovered during archeological excavations carried out by the Miraflores Project between 1994-1996, the theme of the museum is the Maya archeology with emphasis on the archeological site of Kaminal Juyu and the cities which maintained trade and political relations. The museum tries to give the public information about the former occupants of the Valley of Guatemala, where centuries later the Capital of the Republic was founded. The collections of the museum are Pre-Hispanic objects from different regions of Guatemala, Textiles and costumes of Guatemala’s indigenous villages from the highlands and monthly samples of contemporary art.

Includes :

Transportation GO AND RETURN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Bilingual Guide/driver and Entrance Fees

Prices per Person:

02 -03 Pax	US$. 30	06 – 07 Pax	US$. 20
04 -05 Pax	US$. 25	08 – 09 Pax	US$. 15

Popol Vuh Museum Tour

 

Needed time: 03 hours

Possible from Monday to Saturday from 08.00 to 15.00 hours

The Popol Vuh Museum offers visitors a unique journey through the history of Guatemala, illustratedbyone ofthe best collections of pre-Columbian andcolonialartin the country.The museum is a privateresearch institution, nonprofit, partof theUniversidad FranciscoMarroquin.Its objectivesinclude the conservation, researchand dissemination ofcultural and archaeological heritage ofGuatemala. The museum houses one of the largest collections of Maya art in the world. It highlights numerous examples of painted pottery from the classical period in the Petén,Verapazand elsewhere,an extraordinary collection offuneral urnsin northwesternGuatemala, important examples ofpre-classicaland classicalsculpture Kaminal Juyu andthe south coast,a sample ofcenserstaken from the watersof LakeAmatitlanwell asan excellent example of ceramicwhistles. Thecolonialroomsoffera large sample ofsilverware,paintingsand colonialimageryofGuatemala.The museum alsohasan important collection ofcostumesand masksof the twentieth century, used in traditional dances, whichare currently noton display. ThePopol VuhMuseum collection includes manyitems related tothe myths of thePopolVuh.

Includes :

Transportation GO AND RETURN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Bilingual Guide/driver and Entrance Fees

Prices per Person:

02 -03 Pax	US$. 30	06 – 07 Paxc	US$. 20
04 -05 Pax	US$. 25	08 – 09 Pax	US$. 15

 

 

Relief Map of Guatemala Tour

Needed time: 03 hours

Possible every day from 08.00 to 15.00 hours

A great opportunity to visit a unique piece of masonry in Latin America, built over 100 years ago by engineer Francisco Vela, this bookcoversonlythe political and geological division of the Republic ofGuatemalain timeat which it wasbuilt.To get anidea of ​​the size of this great work,its constructionneedof 85,000bricksexcludinglumpused inthe foundation, 280barrels ofcementto4 quintalseach.And a lot of stone brought fromthe south coast ofGuatemala.

Includes :

Transportation GO AND RETURN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Bilingual Guide/driver and Entrance Fees

Prices per Person:

02 -03 Pax	US$. 30	06 – 07 Pax	US$. 20
04 -05 Pax	US$. 25	08 – 09 Pax	US$. 15

 

 

Central American Brewery Tour

 

Needed time: 04 hours

Possible from Monday to Thursday at 08.00, 10.00 and 14.00 hours

The Central American Brewery life spans three centuries. The start of operation in 1886 marks the beginning of a great adventure in both the industrial and economic development of Guatemala City. After 125 years, the manufacturing process is similar, but completely different in matters of volume and equipment. The longevity and success of this company has remained as one of the pillar of economic activity in Guatemala. In the minds of the founders, Mario and Rafael Castillo Cordova, the always privileged the use of the most innovative technological resources, which is why they turned their sight on Germany, manufacturers of the best equipment for the brewery industry, after 125 years the backlog in equipment used in the brewing industry is considerable. In an effort to provide an overview of its history, created thebrewerytourwhere you can seethe evolution ofvariousmachinery andequipment used in the manufactureand packaging ofbeer.Similarly it ispossible to knowthe raw materialand the process ofbrewing.During the tour you can observethe operation of oneof the most modernbottling roomsin the region.The interest of thebrewerTouris to sharethe prideand tradition ofmakingthebest beers in thecountry, ourway of working inreal time,and the vanguard ofour facilitiesand industrial processes.The developmentof each ofour brandsis carried out withspecially developedrecipesandthe finest ingredients, processed withthe highest standardsand quality controls.

Includes :

Transportation GO AND RETURN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Bilingual Guide/driver and Entrance Fees

Prices per Person:

02 -03 Pax	US$. 30	06 – 07 Pax	US$. 20
04 -05 Pax	US$. 25	08 – 09 Pax	US$. 15

 

 

Guatemala City Shopping Tour

 

Needed time: 04 hours

Possible every day from Possible every day from 09.00 to 18.00 hours

We will take to visit the most exclusive shopping malls of the city, our first stop will be in Oakland Mall, located one of the most exclusive areas for business and entertainment on the city; in this mall you will be able to visit fashion boutiques, sports stores, jewelry stores, book stores and a lot of more variety to see on it’s 03 floors. In here you can also find banks if you want to make a transaction and you also will find one of the best movie theaters of Guatemala, where if you have the time, you will be able to see the top Hollywood blockbusters and of course don’t forget the food court with a huge variety of restaurants. After the visit of the mall we will go to the handicraft shop located close to the airport here you will be able to buy a souvenir with the colorful that represent Guatemala so well.

Includes :

Transportation GO AND RETURN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Bilingual Guide/driver and Entrance Fees

Prices per Person:

02 -03 Pax	US$. 25	06 – 07 Pax	US$. 15
04 -05 Pax	US$. 20	08 – 09 Pax	US$. 12

 

 

Antigua Guatemala City Tour

 

Needed time: 06 hours

Possible every day from Possible every day from 07.00 to 15.00 hours

Located one hour away from Guatemala City is Antigua Guatemala the third capital of Guatemala and a city named world heritage by the UNESCO when you get there, you will walk with your guide around in this wonderful city and learn more about the Guatemalan history during colonial times.  We visit the Cathedral and the fountain on the main square while we explain the city history.  From the second floor in the City hall you have a nice view to all the main plazas and the Volcano Agua. We continue to the cloister of Capuchinas, a very good example of the colonial architecture. We visit the San Francisco el Grande Church, one of best-preserved churches in Antigua and the resting place of the first saint in Central-America, Hermano Pedro. We walk to the beautiful baroque church of Nuestra Señora de la Merced. The tour ends in a jade factory, where you can see how Mayans worked in the past and how it is done now.

Includes :

Transportation GO AND RETURN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Bilingual Guide/driver and Entrance Fees

Prices per Person:

02 -03 Pax	US$. 30	06 – 07 Pax	US$. 20
04 -05 Pax	US$. 25	08 – 09 Pax	US$. 15

 

 

Coffee Plantation Tour

 

Needed time: 06 hours

Possible every day from Possible every day from 07.00 to 15.00 hours

Located really close from Antigua Guatemala there is Finca Filadelfia Coffee Plantation, a really nice place where we take you to their flagship tour for over 9 years, where visitorswill learnabout coffeefrom the plantation tothe cup.Learn about the history, cultivationand processingof coffeeon our farm,with over 130years of traditiondating back to1870.On a walkyou will visitthe nursery and the plantingof coffee,and thenmade​​a tour of the wet and drying patios, thedry millandmanual sortingarea.Latervisit theroasting andpackaging area, closing withthecupping lab.The tour ends sippinga cup of theworld's best coffeeproduced inFinca Filadelfia, theGenuineAntigua,in the preparationof your choosing:American orespresso.

Includes :

Transportation GO AND RETURN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Bilingual Guide/driver and Entrance Fees

Prices per Person:

02 -03 Pax	US$. 50	06 – 07 Pax	US$. 35
04 -05 Pax	US$. 40	08 – 09 Pax	US$. 30

 

 

Canopy Tour

Needed time: 06 hours

Possible every day from Possible every day from 07.00 to 15.00 hours

If you are looking for an activity to relief you from the stress of being long hours at the airport this is the tour you should take, located in Finca Filadelfia there are three sky trails that you can take the Canyon Express, the Forest Trail and the Forest Express have different duration, long and intensity.

Includes :

Transportation GO AND RETURN FROM THE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Bilingual Guide/driver and Entrance Fees

Prices per Person:

02 -03 Pax	US$. 85	06 – 07 Pax	US$. 75
04 -05 Pax	US$. 80	08 – 09 Pax	US$. 65

 

 

Tikal one day Tour:

 

Needed time: 24 hours

Possible every day from Possible every day at 04.30 hours

If you have the chance to spend a couple of nights in Guatemala to do this tour, we strongly recommend you to do it, this tour will take to the heart of the Mayan World, besides the one day tour we can help you out with booking for you the hotel accommodation and the shuttles between the airport and the hotel. The itinerary of the tour is:

Includes:

Flight Ticket, Transportation, Guide, Entrance Fees and Lunch

Prices per Person:

ALL INCLUSIVE

US$. 335

 

 

And if you have MORE time!

Ask for a personalized itinerary from 1 day, with Chichicastenango – Quetzaltenango – Montericco or other!

Remember that we can also provide with the best executive private transportation to drive to your meetings in Guatemala City or any other place of the country.