• Kaldi & Kapra Coffee House - Experience a vibrant “pastorela,” a theatrical performance depicting the shepherds’ welcome of Jesus. With colonial influences, it narrates the events leading to Jesus’ birth. Revel in this beautiful moment filled with light, music, art, and creativity, fostering community bonds and cultural identity.
• The Plaza Central Park - After a heartfelt moment, enjoy a ten-minute walk to admire the artwork by local artisans and artists, a cherished tradition in Antigua Guatemala. The figures and decorative elements recreate Guatemalan year-end traditions, blending regional authenticity with New World influences, and depict the Bethlehem scene culminating in Jesus’ birth. Creating nativity scenes in Guatemala has become a symbol of family strength, unity, and devotion. Often adorned with natural plants, fountains, colored sawdust, and stones, each scene creates a unique home atmosphere. Every nativity scene reflects the family’s creativity and can vary in complexity and style.
• Arco de Santa Catalina - Stroll along the main street connecting El Manchen and Main Square, known as 5th Avenue or Santa Catalina Arch Street.

Conclude this wonderful experience as everyone returns to their place, using La Merced Church as a convenient reference point to guide you back to the Main Square.

• Colonia El Manchén - After visiting the previous artwork, enjoy a 15-minute mini chicken bus ride to El Manchen.

Posadita Elements:
Host family: This home has the honor of being chosen to host Mary and Joseph, along with the community, in a pilgrimage-like manner, with multiple neighborhood homes participating.
Pilgrims: Children, young people, and adults sing posada songs and follow the procession from house to house.
Traditional Musical Instruments: Instruments like the turtle shell, chinchines, and trumpets, among others.
Christmas Carols and traditional songs: Pilgrims and children sing to request lodging.
Food and Decoration: Seasonal foods such as fruit punch, tamales, atol, and sweets are shared, and homes are decorated with lights, cellophane paper decorations, and tin cans for lanterns.
Pinata: Typically, a pinata is broken at the end, symbolizing the breaking of sins in this world.

• Iglesia de La Merced - Use La Merced Church as a reference point to return after this wonderful experience.

• Bottled water
• Entrance fees
• Private transportation
• Snacks

• Lunch

Las Posaditas are extremely important in Guatemala, as it was the first country in America Continent to adopt this practice, which strengthens both the home and spiritual relationships. Introduced in the16th century (1723) by Friar Hermano Pedro de Betancourt, he traveled from the Canary Islands in Spain to Antigua Guatemala and founded the Bethlemite Order. He soon realized how much Guatemala Culture is focus on family values and invited everyone to receive in their homes a Procession symbolizing only Virgen Mary and Saint Joseph’s journey to Bethlehem, looking for the inn where Christ was to be born.

Later in time, this procession evolved into a larger pilgrimage where families, from children to grown ups, had a special rol, blending prehispanic elements such as Chirimilla, colorful lanterns that light up the path or Huehuetl, a guatemalan drum, turning the experience into an authentic celebration and perfect moment to bond community and life leasons for the new generations.

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