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-- Highlands
-- Tikal
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-- Highlands
-- Yaxhá
-- Tikal
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> 10 days 9 nights
-- Highlands
-- Caribbean
-- Mayan World

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Santiago Atitlan Sightseeing Tour:
Santiago Atitlan is located on foot of the volcanoes Toliman and Atitlan and in front of the volcano San Pedro. Their residents belong to the ethnos Tz'utuhil and they still conserve their popular culture and traditions of the pre Hispanic times.

In this region of Guatemala, you will be able to appreciate the typical suits in their entire splendor, such as in Santiago where men wear white pants at knee-length with lilac vertical lines, long sleeve shirts and a hat. Women wear white “huipiles” (tunics) with geometric drawings, a red girth and a beautiful headdress.

In Santiago we will visit Maximon, famous character of the Mayan spirituality that represents the duality: the well and the wrong and is “Great Grandfather” of all the people of Santiago's town.

At the present time it is worshipped as a pagan god by the natives, and it is represented carrying cigarette and liquor.

This perverse "saint's image is harbored in a pagan chapel in the town.

Here we will have the opportunity to observe the rituals, petitions and offerings that the

residents offer him. Also, we will visit the Catholic Church where the Catholic rites mixed with Mayan rituals. Then we will move to San Pedro's town that is located also in the Riveras of the Atitlan Lake, in the skirts of the San Pedro volcano.

San Pedro La Laguna Sightseeing Tour:
San Pedro La Laguna is a well-known town because the local artists who greatly manifest the primitive painting, capturing in their paintings the daily life of these indigenous towns with their typical suits, traditions and flowers.

San Pedro is a spectacular place located in the skirts of the volcano of the same name and gives you the opportunity to do a photography tour and to take magnificent pictures of the lake.
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Day 4 / Continuing our Guatemala Vacation Tour:
After breakfast, around 8:00 a.m. we will travel to Chichicastenango to enjoy the multicolored market, where the scent of incense and the people's mysticism promises a unique atmosphere, the bargaining of the prices, the Mayan and Catholics traditions mixed in the church.

This is a market that every Thursday and Sunday appears and disappears as one of the ancient commercial traditions of the Guatemalan highlands and that now delights all visitors. At 02:00 p.m. we will go back to Antigua Guatemala. Travel Lodge in Antigua Guatemala. Next page...
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