La Antigua Guatemala´s Surrounding Villages - Culture & Color

La Antigua Guatemala´s Surrounding Villages - Culture & Color

Prepare to enjoy an incredible journey full of experiences that will delight your senses while we visit the towns around La Antigua Guatemala and the main activities carried out by local people in the different traditional towns to visit.
This tour was created by Best Guatemala to show the different traditions, art and skills of the locals, such as cooking, weaving and local crops, explaining a little bit of the history, importance and life style of each town, making three stops to highlight the most important out of the five villages we will visit.
TOUR PLAN
Heading to our first stop, San Juan del Obispo village, you will visit the Archbishop´s Palace (if availiable). Then we will visit a local family, experts in chocolate preparation, the one you could taste if wanted (not included). Following to our next stops, you will drive through three colorful and historical main plazas of San Pedro Las Huertas, San Miguel Escobar and Ciudad Vieja village.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Chocolate Antigua, San Juan del Obispo, Guatemala

Heading to our first stop, San Juan del Obispo village, you will visit the Archbishop´s Palace (if availiable). Then we will visit a local family, experts in chocolate preparation, the one you could taste if wanted (not included)

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Valhalla Experimental Station, Km 52.5 a San Miguel Duenas, San Miguel Duenas Guatemala

Following to our next stops, you will drive through three colorful and historical main plazas of San Pedro Las Huertas. In San Pedro las huertas we will see the big public laundry station and the "Esquisuchil tree" San Miguel Escobar and Ciudad Vieja village. To continue this road trip, we will stop at San Miguel Dueñas and its Macadamia nut farm

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: antigua guatemala, Unnamed Road, Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala

and finally, we will arrive at San Antonio Aguas Calientes and its woman´s weaving tradition, to learn the process of weaving and buy some souvenirs.

Duration: 1 hour