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Coffee, Birds, and
Plants of Guatemala |
| Guatemala packs more biodiversity in a land
the size of Ohio than any country three times its size in the Americas. Come experience
the range of its natural beauty through a series of guided excursions that carry you from
the tropical lush lowlands of the Rio Dulce to the semitropical and temperate
cloud forests
of the Altiplano in Guatemala's Central Highlands. This tour includes visits to the Mario
Dary Biotope where macaus, toucans, and the elusive Quetzal live in a rainforest also home
to more than 50 varieties of orchids and bromeliads and to Lake Atitlan, judged by Aldous
Huxley to be "the most beautiful lake in the world." At the lake, you visit the
San Buenaventura Nature Reserve, which preserves and displays the lake basin's unique
ecology, and are guided through a family-run coffee plantation, where gourmet-quality
coffee (arabica) is organically grown, processed and packaged. You will also hike the
skirts of the lake's volcanoes to see changes in flora and fauna from lakeshore to higher
elevations. This tour includes side trips to the Spanish colonial city of Antigua and to
the indigenous cultural and artisan market center of Chichicastenango. It also offers a
supplemental overnight package to Tikal in the Peten Rainforest where nearly 250 bird
species share space with a wide range of exotic jungle plants and animals amidst the most
impressive ruins of the ancient Mayan world. |
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| Next Tour - To
Be Determined |
| Basic Coffee - 12 days. |
| Coffee with Tikal - 14
days. |
| Participation requires good health and
physical fitness as some activities call for hiking at elevations up to 6,500 feet.
While "roughing it" is not an intentional goal of this tour, the itinerary
sometimes makes it unavoidable. Package price is necessarily based on double
occupancy with shared bath as single occupancy and private baths are not available at some
overnight locations. The tour leader will coordinate upgrades where available upon
request at some additional charge. Package price includes all breakfasts and about half of
other meals. |
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