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Vacation to Guatemala

​Tours around Guatemala City, Guatemala

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A tour around Guatemala City walks you past town's most critical buildings.
Should you skip Guatemala's capital city, famous for its traffic, urban sprawl and crime, in support of colonial Antigua? Or is the greatest urban area in Central America worth a deeper exploration? A tour around Guatemala City walks you to the heart in the city's cultural and historical scene. 
Explore the country's respected museums, view historic buildings and luxuriate in Guatemala City's bars and restaurants. A guided tour enables you to explore metropolis with confidence.
  • Tours
Tours around Guatemala City take 3 or 4 hours, or possibly a full day, and go to cultural and historical highlights with the city, such as the National Palace, the central plaza, the cathedral and the town's top museums. Tour guides drive visitors by minibus to determine the sights you will find walking involved look around the destinations more closely. A variety of tour operators runs day and half-day tours, including City Discovery (city-discovery.com), which organizes a three-hour tour, Tours by Locals (toursbylocals.com) and Turansa (turansa.com).
  • The Old City
​Any these tours goes through the historical center in Zone 1 of Guatemala City. Amid the crumbling buildings, street vendors and traffic, are some with the city's historic landmarks. The National Palace is regarded as the intricately decorated building within the Plaza Mayor. You can tour many of its 350 rooms, such as Sala de Recepción and Sala de Banquetes, featuring crystal and gold chandeliers along with the Presidential Balcony. The blue-domed Metropolitan Cathedral will probably be worth a look for the 12-pillar entrance inscribed together with the names of "disappeared" Guatemalans over the civil war. After walking the location, Tours by Locals goes to one of any selection of cafes and bars to get a refreshment break.
  • Museums
​The most-visited museums on Guatemala City tours would be the National Museum of Ethnology and Archaeology plus the Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Dress. The National Ethnology and Archaeology Museum is home to a few of the most critical Maya artifacts in Guatemala, including a assortment of jade with masks, jewelry along with a scale model in the Tikal Mayan ruins. The Ixchel Museum of Indigenous Dress contains a variety of textiles from over 120 indigenous communities. 
The museum tells the storyline of traditional weaving and craft across the nation. Tours by Locals also visits Popol Vuh Archeological Museum.
  • Kaminaljuyú
City Discovery, among other tour operators, walks you to the ruins of Kaminaljuyú in Zone 7 about the western fringe of Guatemala City. While the ruins of the adobe-constructed city that's once the place to find 50,000 everyone is hard to determine today, the Miraflores Museum (museomiraflores.org) puts everthing into perspective. The museum explains the significance from the city and displays stone stelae and sculpture collected in the site. There's also a scale model to offer an impression with the scale of Kaminaljuyú in their heyday.

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