Top Panajachel Food & Drink

Find out what’s bubbling in the typical Guatemalan kitchen during this 4-hour cooking class near Lake Atitlan. Spend your session gaining a hands-on understanding of three Guatemalan dishes, discovering the blend of Mayan and Spanish colonial flavors that give this Central American cuisine its unique taste. You’ll finish class by enjoying a tasty lunch of the dishes you prepared, and recipe book to recreate the dishes in the future. Optional upgrades featuring private lessons and visits to the market are also available.

Scale the heights of Guatemala’s towering Santiaguito volcano, one of the country’s most active, during this 6-hour hiking excursion. Take a relatively easy hike up the slopes of this 12,375-foot (3770-meter) volcano, enjoying views of nearby Mayan corn fields and the area’s cloud forest as you climb. From the top you’ll enjoy gorgeous sight lines of the volcano’s smoking side cone (and a thrilling sense of accomplishment). This Santiaguito day hike covers entrance fees, a guide, snacks and round-trip hotel transport.

Once famously described as "too much of a good thing," Lake Atitlan's stunning beauty and broad diversity of towns can make it difficult for visitors to decide how best to see its attractions. This tour lets you see it all while connecting with the landscape and the local people in ways that few visitors get to do. After taking a boat from Panajachel to the small Mayan village of Tzununa, hop on a bike for a ride through the countryside, stopping to visit weaving cooperatives, coffee plantations, art galleries, and some of the best viewpoints on the Lake.