Guatemala Adventure
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Overview
Highlights
- Explore Guatemala
- Experience drive to Mario Dary Tropical Cloud Forest Reserve
- Visit the Semuc Champey Natural Monument
- Enjoy boat ride to Maya site of Aguateca and experience memorable hiking inside a natural limestone fissure used by the Maya as a defensive wall.
- Drive to Tikal National Park
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Trip includes
- Each itinerary includes all lodging as listed on the itinerary or similar
- Meals as indicated
- All airport/hotel transfers when arriving and departing the stated arrival and departure dates of the trip
- All land and water transportation within destination
- Entrance fees to national parks and reserves as specified and guide services as specified.
Itinerary
Accommodations: Biltmore Hotel
Upon arrival at the international airport in Guatemala City you are met by our local representative and transferred to your hotel.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodations: Casa Duranta
Drive north to the Biotopo Mario Dary Rivera Nature Reserve where your naturalist guide will lead a three hour hike among a verdant world of waterfalls, orchids and ancient trees. The reserve is common...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodations: Casa Duranta
Visit the Semuc Champey Natural Monument, near the Q'eqchi' Maya town of Lanquín. You'll see the landmark natural 984-foot limestone bridge, under which passes the Cahabòn River, and its ser...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodations: Chiminos Island Lodge
This morning drive north to the San Simon River. A local community of Maya Keckchi has been equipped and trained to host a river tubing service in the San Simon River, through a lim...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodations: Chiminos Island Lodge
Enter the underworld realm of Candeleria, an extensive limestone caves system considered to be the sacred entrance to the underworld by the ancient Maya. Caves National Park encompa...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodations: Tikal Inn
A short boat ride from the lodge leads to the Maya site of Aguateca, perched 300 feet above the lagoon. Hike inside a natural limestone fissure used by the Maya as a defensive wall. You may get...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodations: Tikal Inn
Spend the day in the company of an expert Maya guide exploring the magnificent achievements of these fascinating ancient people. At its height, Tikal was home to over 100,000 Maya and was a cul...
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodations: Biltmore Hotel
You may wish to arise early for bird watching or climb an ancient temple to watch the sunrise. It is spectacular in the awakening rainforest to watch the early rays of dawn spread across the vast jungle can...
Meals: Breakfast
Transfer to Guatemala City airport for your departure or begin your trip extension.
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The total tour cost includes the tour price (regular or promotional) and the compulsory local payment. The promotional price is subject to change. Check directly with the operator for the latest price offer. The tour operator requires you to pay only the tour price to purchase your travel. The compulsory local payment will be paid when you join the trip. All prices are based on double, twin or triple share occupancy. Solo passengers will be accommodated in a double, twin or triple room according to availability with a passenger(s) of the same gender. Single supplement only needs to be paid if the passenger does not want to share and requests their own room. Discounts can only be applied at the time of booking and cannot be added at a later date, regardless of any changes made to the original booking.
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Logistics
What's excluded
- International airfare to/from the destination
- Domestic flights between Flores and Guatemala City
- Excess baggage fees
- The cost of obtaining passports
- Visas or tourist cards
- Airport arrival and departure taxes
- Meals not specified in the itinerary
- Alcoholic beverages
- Personal expenses such as room service, beverages and laundry
- Personal communication charges, and gratuities to tour escort, guides or drivers.
Accommodation
In order to confirm this trip, a deposit of $500 is required at the time of booking. A Reservation Form, which includes a release of liability, must be completed and signed by all travelers. The balance of the trip price is due 90 days before the departure date. Guests who must cancel their trip for any reason must do so in writing. Cancellations are subject to the following fees, based on number of days prior to departure:
Up to 91 days - 50% of deposit
90 to 31 days - 50% of total trip cost
30 to 0 days - 100% of total trip cost
8 Breakfast, 6 Lunches, 4 Dinner
Families & Children Child rate posted is for children 11 years old and under sharing a room with two parents.
Travel Insurance
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Trip level II
Our level two trips are designed for more ambitious travelers who enjoy some physical challenge. Expect three to six hours of activity each day over moderate terrain with occasional steep slopes and/or difficult footing. Travelers should be comfortable hiking or walking three to seven miles each day. Level two trips include opportunities for additional activities such as road or mountain biking, trekking, scuba diving, caving, white water rafting Class III-IV and more strenuous hiking. While most level two trips utilize lodges and hotels any trip that involves camping is rated level two.
Reservations
All persons wishing to make a reservation, and all persons who will be traveling, must complete and sign the Traveller Information Form. All reservations are made with Adventure Smith Travel Services Inc., d/b/a Adventure Smith Explorations. No person has any authority on Adventure Smith Explorations’ behalf to vary these terms and conditions.
Unused services & personal expenses
Regardless of any other term in this agreement, partial refunds are not available for unused services including but not limited to hotel rooms, meals, air or land transportation, activity days or other sightseeing excursions. You will not be reimbursed for any personal expenses such as airfare, hotel or other travel expenses due to changes in itineraries or cancellations. If a portion of the services of your tour are cancelled by us or our third party supplier because of an event within our control or the control of our third party supplier, and you are not offered a replacement or alternative, we will refund the cost of that portion of the services.
Severability
If any provision of this agreement shall be unenforceable or invalid under any applicable law, such unenforceability or invalidity shall not render the agreement unenforceable or invalid as a whole. Such unenforceable provision will be replaced with one that is valid and enforceable and which achieves, to the extent possible, the original objectives and intent of the original provision.
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