Welcome to Zunil

As you speed downhill toward Zunil from Quetzaltenango, you'll see this pretty market town spreading across a lush valley framed by steep hills and dominated by a towering volcano, its white colonial church gleaming above the red-tiled roofs of the low houses. A road on the left bridges a river and, 1km further, reaches Zunil's plaza.

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Founded in 1529, Zunil is a typical Guatemalan highland town, where traditional indigenous agriculture is practiced. The cultivated plots, divided by stone fences, are irrigated by canals; you'll see the farmers scooping up water with a shovel-like instrument and tossing it over their plants. Locals wash their clothes near the river bridge in pools of hot water that come out of the rocks.

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$60 Spa Tours

Fuentes Georginas Hot Springs from Quetzaltenango

The driver will pick you up from your hotel in Quetzaltenango and take you by shared van or car to Fuentes Georginas hot spring. You'll be impressed when see the steam floating and for sure you will soak you up in the pools.Visit these hot springs that emanate from the Zunil Volcano and which flow into the place known today as Fuentes Georginas, thermal sources discovered by two laborers from Zunil in the year 1902 and they changed it into communal bath, where people who lived around there or near the thermal baths took a bath when they considered it necessary.Take a relaxing bath, a little walk on its trails or just enjoy of nature at the Hot Springs Fuentes Georginas. The prettiest in Guatemala at 8 kilometers from Zunil where you also do a short visit.After this experience you go to Zunil and Almologna Village to See great culturals and Vegetable places around, getting a specific and general orientation of a local guide who leading you by this tour.
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