hiking in Guatemala

adventure tourism

Check out Guias Ixiles in Nebaj. I only did day hikes but loved them (photos linked below). Keep us posted!

Check out Quetzaltrekkers. They have been around a long time, with an excellent reputation. They also support charity work.

Agree with Above. The area between Nebaj and Todos Santos Cuchumatan is beautiful.

The lake could be a great place for hiking but also Antigua, lots of guiding companies, etc. But if solo, and you do not want to pay, go to Nebaj

Thanks. I looked at these companies. Would also like some solo walking though, on a more informal basis. How much would one expect to pay for a guide for a half-day walk, say? I've done this in Africa and in Cuba, always for less than €10 or so.

Land around Nebaj is mostly farmed, I hear. Any recommendations on more "natural" environments too (cloud forest etc)?

Has anyone done the Xela-Atitlán walk?

suiko - Have you looked at my pictures of the Cocop hike? You don't get the feeling you're walking through farmland - it's really lovely; not cloud forest, though. I remember thinking the price was really reasonable but don't remember because we didn't have to pay for our hikes as they were included in our Spanish school package (20 hours of 1-on-1 tutoring, 7 nights room and board with a host family, the hikes, and cooking classes for $115).

Also, many folks would agree that Rio Dulce/Livingston isn't one of the grandest areas of Guatemala. We broke up the long bus trip from Atitlán to Tikal with a few nights there and the obvious highlight was the 2 hour boat ride on the Rio Dulce between them.

I thought El Estor would be a nice base for some walks and nature stuff. I realise lots of people don't like Lívingston much, but the idea was to stay some place like Finca Tatin. Tho maybe we can do that sort of thing just as well around Petén?

But then the Cobán - Chisec - Sayaxché route looks good too, and transport times seem a lot less painful, as the road is surfaced.

The only way to do both routes, I think, would be to go Cobán-Flores, then instead of going into Belize from there, to go back down to Río Dulce and then into Belize from Lívingston.

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Is it possible to do more than a one day trip?
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I was already climbed Volcan Santa Maria in Xelaju long time since my days of school there living for 5 years in the dorms of an Evangelic College called “La Patria”. We left the city of Xelaju, Quezaltenango, to the volcanoe’s vicinity (a few miles from the city by jeep) and started pacing our way; you pass through irregular knolls then walk to the tree encircle where the whole thing becomes pine and fret icy....many hours later we reached up to the cone; it is a warped crater and so we were able to moved around and spent the night there...IT WAS GUSTY AND COLD! our canteens congealed and nobody slumbered, but we were fulfilled in the morning when we paced about over the line of the crater at dawn and could watch into Retalhuleu, the pacific ocean and the other volcanoe (Volcan Santiaguito) with which the tip of this is intertwined Santa Maria volcanoe such as that they said that Santa Maria is the mother of Santiaguito in Guatemala where more than hundred volcanoes are rising out of the cloud edge...it was astounding and Santa Maria is one of the highest summit beside that Tajumulco is the highest in Central America....This hiking took us one day trek...