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Bicycle Tour Around Lake Atitlan: Explore Weaving Coops and Coffee Plantations

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7 Ratings

Panajachel

Embark on a scenic bicycle tour around Lake Atitlan, exploring weaving coops, coffee plantations, and Mayan villages. Perfect for families and beginners, with boat rides and stunning views.

Duration: 6 hours

Cancellation: 1 day learn more

Highlights

Start point for the mountain bike tour is Panajachel, take a boat ride when the waters are calm, bike with a guide along trails through coffee plantations, local farms and corn and vegetable family plantations, meeting Cackchikel and Tzutujiles and Mayan inhabitants, observing their everyday work, making crafts and farming their land with ancient techniques that today remain

Get fitted for your bike and helmet, then board the boat to Tzununa, one of the most remote Mayan villages. Mount your bike for a ride through San Marcos, San Pablo, San Juan, and San Pedro. Starting with 5 kilometers of dirt road to San Marcos, and then a paved road to San Pablo, a stop at the Crystalline Beach to swim or enjoy the view. You will then continue to San Juan for optional visits to weaving cooperatives, coffee plantations, and art galleries. You will finish in San Pedro. From there, you will head back to Panajachel by boat. The trip consists of 5 hours, 4 hours of cycling and one hour by boat round trip.

Points of Interest

Ferry

What's Included

Mountain bike and helmet included
Hotel pickup and drop-off at selected Panajachel hotels
All activities led by a professional guide

What's Not Included

Food and drinks
Gratuities

Additional Information

This is a leisurely bicycle journey that offers breathtaking views and is ideal for families, novices, and intermediate cyclists. It features boat tours enabling you to admire Lake Atitlan from various viewpoints. Cycle through distinctive Mayan settlements and rural areas, stop by weaving cooperatives, coffee farms, art galleries, or simply relish the surroundings.

A minimum of 2 people per booking is required
Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
Children must be accompanied by an adult

Location

Ferry

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

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Jennifer_h

Mar 29, 2024

Cycling, sweating, and scenery - The ride was not easy - great exercise - with rewarding cities like San Marcos and San Juan to explore and excellent eating and coffee stops. Loved our guide, Mario, and all the places he took us. He was especially wonderful with our 11 year old son.

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Diana_m

Jan 1, 2024

A wonderful way to experience Lake Atitlán! - My son and I rode with Marcelino from Jaibalito to San Juan. The bicycles were in great condition and Marcelino was a considerate and knowledgable guide. The road was steep and rough at times, but he patiently walked with us when we needed to dismount from our bikes. I wouldn't recommend this trip for someone who's not in fair shape. It was a great way to see a lot of the areas around the lake without noisy and smelly tuc tucs or speedboats. We very much enjoyed the visits to the weaving cooperative and chocolate factory in San Juan. Highly recommend

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D5944wujonathanm

Nov 20, 2022

Fun/Fit Way to See Atitlan Towns - Very cool tour! Not gonna lie, the mountain bikes were hard - it’s a lot of up and down literal mountains, and we were struggling as generally fit people in our 20s/30s. That said, the exercise was welcome after a week of Gallos and pepian, and the bike path becomes a lot more manageable halfway through. And it was a great way to see some of the towns around the lake. We spent a lot of time in San Juan where we saw presentations from a honey coop and a textile coop and got a chance to shop. The larger coffee plantation was closed, but our fantastic guide Mario took us to a smaller shop where we could still see the coffee beans and try some great coffee. Mario was also super helpful as we went shopping for art and souvenirs. We decided to end the tour a little early and skipped the chocolate museum and the last town, and Mario was super flexible and picked us up and dropped us off at our hotel via boat. Would def recommend if you’re up for the exercise, but the tour company in general is fantastic, and Mario was saying they have many other ways of seeing the towns.

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Nicolec490

May 6, 2022

Great Day Activity - Great tour with beautiful views! Marcelino was an awesome tour guide and very encouraging as we attempted to make it up the steep hills! The bikes were very nice and we had no issues. The tour of San Juan was great and we stopped at the the best co-op’s. I highly recommend this tour!

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M1891stkathleend

Nov 29, 2019

Great bike tour! - Our guide, Alex, made the tour the excellent excursion that it was. With some tough climbs, the town to town tour was hard for one teen member of our group, and Alex should be singularly credited for keeping smiles on everyone’s faces. The coffee tour and weaving cooperatives were highlights and the views from the road were incredible. The bikes were solid but they did need repairs as we travelled. A wonderful adventure!

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Aleguevcer

Feb 7, 2023

Sweet and Sour tour - Very tough to write a review when we had so much fun and at the same time the tour did not complied with our expectations. Let me explain, On the plus side Mario was an awesome guide, very attentive and well versed in the local customs and traditions, positive attitude and very friendly, the town of San Juan is wonderful, many very entertaining activities to enjoy. On the down side, bicycles were in terrible condition and one of our party (we were 6) could not participate in cycling because tour operator did not provided an adequate bicycle for her small size even when days before the tour we were asked about our measurements (weight and height), ¿why did you asked for this information if you where not to be careful to provide appropriate-sized bicycles? In the end our friend had to skip cycling and go directly to the town of San Juan.

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Roberto_r

Jan 8, 2022

Terrible experience it’s a ripoff. - We decided to go on the tour expecting to have a value added over us renting on our own the bikes. However, the quality of the bikes were terrible, the chain of one of the bikes broke and we had to return on a comunal pickup. The guide never helped nor gave us any information he just rode in front of us. After coming back on the pickup he took us to return the bines where he rebted them, we had to walk to the dock and there he left us in a public boat that took 45min to get us to our hotel. It was trully a disappointment. We ended up paying $300usd for something we could have done our own for $50usd

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