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Coffee,
Birds, and Plants of Guatemala
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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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Tour - To
Be Determined
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Basic
Coffee -
12 days.
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Coffee
with Tikal - 14 days.
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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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