Day 1: Guatemala Airport – Antigua - Reception at International Airport and assistance during transfer to Antigua. This beautiful colonial town is a UNESCO World Heritage surrounded by towering volcanoes. Hotel Option A: Vista Real ; Hotel Option B: Barceló

Day 2: Visit Antigua and Conference on the Mayan Cycles - Breakfast. Spend the morning on a walking tour through Antigua, where colonial flair lies over this beautiful town. Visit La Merced Church, the Companía de Jesús, the Cathedral, San Francisco Church and the Central Park.  In the afternoon an archaeologist will help you better understand the cycles of the Mayan calendar during a presentation in a private space at your hotel. Hotel Option A: Porta Antigua; Hotel Option B: Villa Colonial for 2 nights. (B)

Day 3. Antigua Surroundings and Conference on Mayan spirituality - Breakfast. Antigua is the center of an interesting area of many small villages where today you will get a glimpse of daily Mayan life and traditions.  Lunch is served at one of the communities: Santiago Zamora where you will have the opportunity to interact with the locals and learn about their way of living. Then it's back to Antigua where a Spiritual Leader will talk about the different aspects of Mayan Spirituality in the past and today. (B,L)

Day 4. Antigua - San Andres Itzapa – Iximché (ceremony) - Atitlan - Breakfast. Leave Antigua towards the western Highlands. Today you will visit a lovely chapel built at San Andrés Itzapa for San Simón, a very popular saint. Then you will travel to the former Caqchiquel capital of Iximché, today an archaeological site with a lot of spiritual energy.  Here you witness a Mayan Ceremony. Arrive at Lake Atitlán in the afternoon. Hotel Option A: Porta del Lago; Hotel Option B: Villa Santa Catarina for 2 nights. (B)

Day 5. Atitlán – San Juan La Laguna (Tree Planting Ceremony)– Panajachel - Breakfast. A boat ride brings you to San Juan La Laguna on the western Lakeshore. During the visit to the village, led by a local community guide, each tour member will have the chance to plant a tree, giving new life during a small ceremony with mother earth. A walk through the friendly village brings you closer the Tzutujil Maya and their handicrafts. Back to Panajachel. (B)

Day 6. Atitlán (Ceremony) – Chichicastenango – Pascual Abaj - Breakfast. At the break of dawn we will enjoy a ceremony at the lakeshore and afterwards drive to Chichicastenango, where the most important and colorful indigenous open air market in the Americas is held twice a week. Here you will be surprised and excited by the syncretism between catholic and Mayan beliefs in the Santo Tomás church. A short walk will then take you the Pascual Abaj, a Mayan sacred place. Continue to Guatemala City. Hotel Option A: Vista Real ; Hotel Option B: Barceló. (B)

Day 7. Guatemala – Copán - Breakfast. Early in the morning we depart to Honduras, onto the picturesque town of Copán Ruinas. Copán is one of the most impressive archaeological sites in the Maya World and was declared “World Heritage Site” by UNESCO. This site presents a sophisticated architectural style and unique artistic stone carvings.  Here you will visit the main plazas, complexes and monuments.  Hotel Marina Copan. (B)

Day 8. Copán – Quiriguá – Flores - Breakfast. A long drive lies before you to the northern Petén area in Guatemala. So along the way there will be a stop at the small but important site of Quiriguá on the way up north. Some of the most important inscriptions referring to the measuring of time can be found here, for example Stele C glyphs tell the myth that led to the ignition of the 5th era of time in 3114 BC. Arrive at Flores in the late afternoon.   Hotel Villa Maya for 2 nights. (B)

Day 9. Flores – Yaxhá (ceremony) – Flores - Breakfast. An hour from Flores lays the lagoon and archaeological site Yaxhá, one of the most important cities in the greater Petén area. A number of acropolis complexes are connected by ancient walkways, and in between are 31 steles and a ball game court. Yaxhá is one of the few sites outside Tikal with a twin pyramid complex, used to celebrate important solstices and equinoxes. The jade green lagoon makes the symbiosis completion of ancient cultures and diverse tropical nature.  Back to Flores. (B)

Day 10. Flores – Tikal – Guatemala - The majestic city of Tikal, considered the largest and most monumental of all sites discovered in the Mayan World, was declared by UNESCO as a “Cultural and Natural Heritage of Humankind”. Enjoy a guided walking tour to visit the most important plazas, complexes, temples, ball courts, palaces and stelae. Also enjoy the tropical forest, nesting place of hundreds of exotic birds and the habitat of a wide variety of wildlife. Lunch at the site. In the afternoon, we return to Flores. Flight to Guatemala City.  Hotel Option A: Vista Real; Hotel Option B: Barceló. (B,L)

Day 11 Guatemala – Airport - Breakfast. Transfer to Airport. (B)