Bike Tours
ATV Tours
Acetenango Volcano Hike
Tikal Trip
Glamping
Other companies offering hikes, etc.
OX Expeditions
Tours we've taken!
Food Tours - they offer a street food tour and dinner tour. We took the street food tour and it's fantastic.
Chocolate Class with Choco Museo
Coffee TourOther options:
Cooking class
Taste rum at La Casa del Ron
Pepian class (Guatemala's national dish is pepian)
Market tour (may not be available with COVID)
Another chocolate class option with Ek Chuah
Another coffee tour
Visit Earth Lodge for the day
Spend the afternoon at Hobbitenango
Take a tour of the Valhalla Macadamia Nut Farm and have macadamia nut pancakes
Caoba Farms
Hike Cerro de la Cruz (no guide needed; it's right outside of town)
Visit a spa:
Porta Hotel
Santo Domingo Hotel
Healing Hands Guatemala
Santa Teresita (not in Antigua; hot springs)
Tour surrounding villages
Walking tour of Antigua
Visit the ruins in Antigua (self guided; don't visit Convento Capuchinas as you will see that at the wedding!)
Salsa dance lessons
Chicken bus tour (chicken buses are old US school buses painted in vibrant colors and used for the public bus system)
Worry doll workshop (Visit a local school and make a worry doll)
Maya spirituality ceremony
Jade workshop
Lake Atitlan is a volcanic lake about 2.5 - 3 hours (one way) from Antigua. You can plan a day trip there or stay a night or two. You can book a shuttle to Lake Atitlan through your hotel in Antigua or through a travel agency (we can help with this). Antigua Tours offers day trips; it's a long day but if you really want to see the lake and not stay the night, this is an option.
There are 13 towns that surround the lake. The 3 towns many visitors stay in are Panajachel (Pana), San Pedro, and San Marcos. This blog article gives a good overview of the main towns and this article offers a nice list of things to do at Lake Atitlan.
Pana is the busiest town where most shuttles bring you. You can find hotels a little outside of the town (wouldn't recommend staying in the middle of town). To visit surrounding towns, you can boats from the docks. A hotel to consider is Hotel Atitlan.
Casa Palopo is a very nice hotel in the town of Santa Catarina. You can get to this hotel easily from Pana.
Shuttles also go to/leave from San Pedro; this is more of a "backpackers" town with casual places to stay.
San Marcos is known as a "spiritual" place with many yoga spots and organic vegan/vegetarian food.
San Juan has an artistic feel; there are many artists, murals, textile shops, and a coffee farm.
La Casa del Mundo and Laguna Lodge are unique hotels only accessible by boat.