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QUETZALTENANGO, INDIGENOUS VILLAGES & COLONIAL CHURCHES
Leave early in the morning to bring a visit at the traditional indigenous villages in the Quetzaltenango area. Here you can experience old Maya traditions combined with catholic religion. You will visit the villages Salcaja, San Andres Xecul and San Cristobal Totonicapán. During the tour you visit various, famous Colonial churches. The Maya saint of Don San Simon in San Andres Xecul, try the local drink caldo de frutas in Salcaja. After this you continue to the hotsprings of Fuentes Georginas where you can have lunch (not included) and where you have time to take a bath. After the hot springs we continue to the village of Zunil where we will visit the famous colonial church in Zunil, the Maya saint of Don San Simon in Zunil. On our way to Quetzaltenango we visit the village of Almolonga which is also called the vegetable garden of Central America. In Quetzaltenango we visit the Historical Centre and the most important buildings before we return to Panajachel.
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Transport, local guide, lunch at the coffefarm and entrance fees included
After the eruption of the volcano Santiaguito everything of the little village Viejo Palmar was destroyed. Now Viejo Palmar (also called it’s Guatemala´s Pompeii) seems like an inhabitable ghost town. Near El Asintal, Retalhuleu we will visit Takalik Abaj (standing stone), the oldest archaeological site in Guatemala, where once the Olmecs and Mayans lived and mingled. Maya styles stela 5 bears the long count date of 125 AD while a pure Olmec style were-jaguar is carves on a nearby boulder dates even far earlier. Recent excavations have uncovered temples, ceremonial platforms, wood carvings and ceramic plus large Olmec heads. You can also see the artifacts found on the site in the local museum and enjoy the botanical garden with more than 200 different species of plants and flowers typical of the area. The tour continues with a visit to the coffee, rubber and sugarcane plantation at Finca San Isidro. On the plantation we will have a tour showing the different products and statues you will encounter on the Finca. You will see that much processing and human labour is required before coffee berries and its seeds can be processed into the roasted coffee. The roasting process has a great degree of influence on the taste of the final product. You will taste it after the tour with of course a nice cop of coffee after lunch which will be served in the house of the landowners! On request, a real Maya priest can give you all the explanations about this fascinating site, and at the end you have the opportunity to perfume in a Maya ceremony on the Takalik Abaj site.