Hike Chicabal Volcano & Soak Fuentes Georginas: 3-Day 4x4 Private Tour from Xela

The morning bus threads out of Quetzaltenango before dawn, headlights cutting through a pale fog. By the time the 4x4 shutters up the switchbacks toward Chicabal, the world has been reduced to tree trunks and the soft hiss of mist. You step out into a wall of cloud: damp air, the sweet metallic tang of moss, and a silence that seems to lean in. The trail climbs—first a gentle stair of volcanic gravel, then steeper switchbacks where roots hook at your boots—until the forest thins and the crater lake appears, sudden and glass-smooth, ringed by pines and the bright prayer flags of the Mam people.