The Acatenango Overnight Hike is difficult. One of the biggest challenges is the elevation; altitude sickness whilst normally not severe can make hiking that much harder. We always recommend being in Antigua Guatemala or a similar elevation (1500m) for at least 48 hours before doing the tour. This will give you body enough time to acclimatize and will make the climb significantly easier. If you are in fairly good shape, have acclimatized and have a good attitude you should be able to do this tour!

You hike for around 4-5 hours on the first day and reach an elevation of 3400m at our Acatenango base camp. Here we rest for the remainder of the day (unless you opt to do the Double Whammy). The next day we get up before down to hike to the summit (1-2 hours) where we take in the amazing views, then it’s back down to base camp for breakfast and finally back to base (3 hours hiking). You are usually back in Antigua, Guatemala at about midday.

The Acatenango Day Trip has a higher difficulty level than the overnight trip as we hike up and down all in the same day; we do however take a different route to the overnight hike. We also leave much earlier (5AM) to give you plenty of time to summit and return before night falls. The whole trip including the shuttle to and from Antigua, Guatemala normally takes 10-12 hours.