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	Tour Name: Guatemala (Easter Week) Tour Country: Guatemala Departures:Multiple Departures - Please Enquire
	Tour Overview: When you enter Guatemala , you enter a magical world full of color, native crafts and captivating ethnic communities. A stroll around the churches, ruins and other architectural jewels evokes the splendor of Spanish colonial times. But that’s just the beginning. The trip is scheduled to coincide with the Easter Week Processions. Although the people are Christian, the Mayan civilization left behind a deep spiritual imprint that is apparent in the processions. Throughout the week we bear witness to a wonderful confluence of Mayan and Christian traditions. For anyone interested in religious and cultural ceremonies, this trip is a must. It will leave you humbled and awed by the devotion of the Guatemalan people
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	Tour Name: Lost Cities of The Maya Country: Guatemala Departures:Multiple Departures - Please Enquire
	Tour Overview: Journey with us on a ten-day exploration through Central America to explore some of the most remote and powerful cities of the ancient Maya. More than archaeology awaits us as we travel through dense rainforest teeming with unusual wildlife, and lush with verdant ferns, bromeliads, and orchids. Our itinerary begins in Quiriguá, a breathtaking site that has attracted explorers and scientists for more than 150 years, and Cancuen and Dos Pilas where our study leader will give us an insider’s view of the latest excavations. The road to Ceibal and Aguateca is the Río Pasión, or Passion River. Travel by river to these splendid sites that have stood silently in the jungle for over 1,000 years, and see carved monuments proclaiming the strength of Our final stop will be the enormous Maya center of Tikal, the largest and most spectacular of the Maya capitals. Here, walk through the myriad of trails that lace the park, and view magnificent temple roof combs towering high above the jungle canopy, and families of monkeys as they swing through the tangled treetops.
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	Tour Name: Day of the Dead Festivities in Guatemala Country: Guatemala Departures:Multiple Departures - Please Enquire
	Tour Overview: Journey on a very special ten-day trip as we follow the TRAIL OF THE SHAMAN through the world of the Guatemalan Highland Maya. We will learn the history of pre-Columbian civilizations and how the Spanish conquest affected these peoples. We will explore the preclassic site of Abaj Takalik, where incised monuments echo themes found throughout Maya history, and visit Iximché, the still living Kaqchikel capital when the Spanish arrived. This fortified city and its people were not easily defeated, and as we climb over the ravines and moats protecting it we will begin to understand why. As we behold the majestic ruins of Colonial New Spain in the extraordinary city of Antigua, we will contemplate how the architecture of Christian conversion was adapted to Maya belief as surely as the Maya adapted to their conquerors. Today’s Highland Maya practice religious rituals based on ceremonies with roots in the world of their ancient forebears and in the world of Medieval and Renaissance Spain. We will have the opportunity to witness some of these rites during visits to churches where Maya presently worship, to holy sites that are open to foreigners, and to Quemaderos (sacred shrines) that are hidden places where shaman come to worship in secret. And we will clearly see the blending of these beliefs as we observe the veneration of three different Maximones, cigar smoking, whisky drinking statues that are worshiped as living gods. This wonderful trip is scheduled to include day of the dead festivities held in Santiago Sacatepequez where huge, beautiful kites are flown to raise the souls of the dead to heaven and to turn away evil spirits. The inhabitants of this area believe that on November 1st they can communicate with their dead by flying these colorful kites high in the air with messages of happiness.
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