Your experience begins at the Toledo District Maya Guest House office, where you will receive a short orientation about the Mayan culture and the village where you will be staying. You'll be assigned to the village and a guide will escort you there. You'll sleep at a small guesthouse built in the local thatched-roof style. Guesthouses can accomodate up to eight people. You will have each meal in a different home.
Meals are simple but good.
A typical lunch might consist of home made tortillas, potatoes, vegetables, and a tasty chicken stew. Local guides will escort you along jungle trails and explain how the villagers grow and harvest food and medicinal herbs and create arts and crafts in traditional Mayan style. You can purchase handmade baskets and other crafts from the village cooperative. You can opt for a two-hour hike through the hills leads to caves covered with ancient Mayan painting. The guesthouse program is a cooperative enterprise, and the participating villages have formed the Toledo Ecotourism Association.