Top Central Highlands Dining Experiences

Enjoy the perfect mix of adventure and relaxation on this 9-hour day trip, ascending Pacaya Volcano and then soaking your muscles at Kawilal Hot Springs. Scale the 8,300-foot (2,500-meter) heights of Pacaya, one of the most active volcanoes in Guatemala. At the top you’ll be able to peer down into the boiling lava of the crater and feel the earth’s rumble. Descend back down from the summit to enjoy an included lunch and soak in the thermal waters of Kawilal Hot Springs, including 12 soaking pools, 25 steam baths and 3 hydrotherapy baths. Your Pacaya day trip also includes entrance fees, a guide and round-trip hotel transport.

Enjoy the perfect mix of adventure and relaxation on this day trip, ascending Pacaya Volcano and then soaking your muscles at a thermal bath resort. Scale the 8,300-foot (2,500-meter) heights of Pacaya, one of the most active volcanoes in Guatemala. At the top you’ll be able to peer down into the boiling lava of the crater and feel the earth’s rumble. Descend back down from the summit to enjoy an included lunch and soak in the thermal waters of Kawilal Hot Springs, featuring 12 soaking pools, 25 steam baths, and three hydrotherapy baths. Your Pacaya day trip also includes entrance fees, a guide, and round-trip hotel transport.

Guatemala´s culinary history is amazing. From fusion dishes to tortillas with meat and vegetables, the mixtures and recipes that guatemalans have used over the years, have made their gastronomy one of the best known around the world. We want you to awake to the Guatemalan culture, which although it has strong roots, is also made up of local way of life, the daily and regular one. We want to provide a direct experience with the people who make this a beautiful place to live, with their work, food, cooking and customs, because at the end of the day, it is what makes a culture so rich and varied like ours.

It is one thing to prepare a drink, another very different is to create art in the process. From the type of glass to the taste they provide, our resident mixologists are something out of this world. Satisfy your curiosity about fine signature cocktails with this experience. We´ll walk the streets of Antigua checking some of the best places with the most original cocktail recipes to please the most demanding palates.

There may be endless restaurants in town, but none can get close to the kind of flavors only street food can bring. Our different options does not fall behind in innovation and creativity. A visit to villages on the outskirts of Antigua, with different flavors that you will not find anywhere else, 100% Guatemalan businesses with hardworking families that have managed to establish themselves as the best ones in the area. (Be prepared because there will be plenty of food).

This is a Luxury experience- we have 3 guides (private cowboy with horse, English speaking and guide that tells you details of volcano.) We book the private lava chef, have chips & salsa on a brilliant colored picnic and your sunset dinner is served with wine-We also have tasting of gourmet chocolates of Guatemala-to accompany S'mores you roast on lava- ALL at the base of an active volcano overlooking 3 other volcanos.

Our tasting experience can be presented by one of our in-house specialists or we can invite one of our outside sommelier partners to deliver the event for large groups. We can also prepare a custom food tasting menu to pair with each of the tastings. Depending on the size of your group, we can host this event in our private cava, our VIP room, or on our terrace.

Handicrafts, vegetables, fruits, chillies, spices, dark glasses, notebooks and underwear! yes, haha, in the Antigua market people can find absolutely everything they need for the daily life. We will be visiting two different markets (artesanal and the main one) full of fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, cheeses and other extra surprises. It is an experience like no other to enter each of these alleys, where you will be able to try, buy or taste everything a little.

From soft flavors to exclusive creations, craft beer already has a wide group of followers who are increasingly pleased with the different brands that exist in the region. We will visit different local breweries both inside and outside Antigua, tasting a wide variety of craft beers.

We will begin our Crawl by going to the south of Antigua to visit a traditional coffee farm with breathtaking views of the volcanoes. At the farm we will be recived by an expert in coffee planting and process. Here we will learn the journey that coffee takes from plant to cup. As we finish our walk through the farm we will drive back to Antigua, where we will visit two coffee shops to take two workshops where we will play with your senses and teach you all there is to know about coffee from our coffee experts, all this while learning the best-kept secrets of the streets of Antigua. Finally we will go to a craft brewery, to enjoy a refreshing beer with notes of coffee and learn about the use of the coffee bean in other products. By the end of the Coffee Crawl, not only will you meet new people and take your knowledge of coffee to the next level, but we assure you you will have lots of fun!

COFFEE FACTORY Take private transportation to local village Milpas Altas to visit the Chica Bean processing plant for Impact Coffee. In this place you will learn about the impact that this coffee has on its producers and farmers. You can also be part and participate on roast it, ground it and packed it industrially and learn how these processes influence the quality of the grain. You will also learn to identify the differences between coffee brewing varieties and how to determine which is a quality coffee. And, of course, you'll end up tasting a delicious cup of freshly brewed coffee of the best quality!