Guatemala Gravity
Epic Enduro Trails, Delectable Food, and Exuberant Culture

Your Guatemala Gravity trip starts today! Our 2Wheel team will pick you up from the airport, help you get accommodated in our Antigua hotel, then give you some time to relax before we have a brief orientation and a great first night in Guatemala.

• Accommodation:  Hotel in Antigua
• Meals Included:  None

Our first day of riding in Guatemala will be spent at the La Carmona mountain bike park, a coffee plantation with over 50 kms of flowing, rolling, blow your mind purpose built single-track bliss! It is also home to Guatemala’s very own jump park. Need we say more? . . . La Carmona is the only trail of its kind here in Guatemala and the top of the trail network is at 2,500 mts (8,500 ft.), which we’ll climb via 4×4 shuttle and then drop into the beginning of an unreal ride down

After our first downhill ride/ warmup, we will then send the afternoon until the sunset. We’ll have a picnic lunch out at La Carmona and head back to Antigua for a group dinner.

• Distance 20 km / 12 miles
• Max Elevation 2,500 m / 7,800 ft
• Ascent 250 m / 800 ft
• Descent 1,700 m / 5,000 ft
• Accommodation Hotel in Antigua
• Meals Included B, L, Snacks

Today’s we will be going back to La Carmona to spend the whole day jumping, cornering and mastering our skills. Today will be fully dedicated to learning how to jump tables, hips, drops, and doubles.

• Distance:  20 km / 12 miles
• Max Elevation:  2,500 m / 7,800 ft
• Ascent:  250 m / 800 ft
• Descent:  1,700 m / 5,000 ft
• Accommodation:  Hotel in Antigua
• Meals Included:  B, L, Snacks

The name says it all: “La Infinta” and the downhills does seem to go on forever. The ride starts up in a region locally referred to as Alaska. This plateau separates the Lake Atitlan region from the rest of the western highlands. Views abound up at ~3,400 m with the entire Guatemalan Ring of Fire off to either side. The ride plummets nearly 2,300 m on a wicked fun mix of terrain. After our shuttle out from the bottom on the backside of the lake we will finish the epic day with one more 400 m drop down to the lakeshore.

Tonight, we spent the first of two nights at Guatemala’s most magical hotel, La Casa del Mundo, perched on a secluded cliff along Lake Atitlan.

• Distance:  20 km / 12 miles
• Max Elevation:  3,400 m / 10,000 ft
• Ascent:  270 m / 900 ft
• Descent:  2,700 m / 9,000 ft
• Accommodation:  La Casa del Mundo, Lake Atitlan
• Meals Included:  B, L, D, Snacks

Today, choose your own adventure! Rent kayaks or paddle boards, hike to a neighboring town, swim in one of the watering holes, chill in a hammock amongst La Casa’s lush gardens, or book some relaxing time in lakefront wood-fired hot tub.

Accommodation Hotel, Lake Atitlan

Meals Included B, D, Snacks

Our first shuttle takes us up to the start of the Lake Atitlan Slickrock ride. At nearly 3,000 m above the lake, marvel at views of the canyons and surrounding volcanoes.

We will climb 5 kms on trail and the Atitlan slickrock to an area known as ‘El Corazón de las Nubes’, a Mayan Ceremonial site AND home to a unique mix of alpine grass, grazing sheep, and agave plants.

We will follow rocky, technical singletrack through pine forests passing through small Mayan communities.

After a picnic lunch and short shuttle we will continue our descent to Lake Atitlán in a 1,000 m downhill.

At the end of the Slickrock ride there is another sweet drop only minutes from the trailhead.

• Distance:  28 km / 17 miles
• Max Elevation:  2,895 m / 9,500 ft
• Ascent:  300 m / 990 ft
• Descent:  1,700 m / 5,200 ft
• Accommodation:  Hotel Regis, Panajachel
• Meals Included:  B, L, Snacks

Two amazing shuttle runs on the eastern rim of Lake Atitlan! Both feature centuries old Mayan trade routes that once connected two of the major Atitlan villages with those of the eastern part of the country. La Santa Cat as it is known because it finishes in the village of Santa Catarina Palopo contours above the lake before it plummets down an a twisty urban staircase to the lake. The San Antonia Maya trail is arguably the oldest of all the footpaths into the Atitlan basin. It is also one of the most technical. Centuries of foot traffic have worn steps into the rock creating an almost Inca trail feel as you drop 400+ meters to the lake.

• Distance:  28 km / 17 miles
• Max Elevation:  2,895 m / 9,500 ft
• Ascent:  300 m / 990 ft
• Descent:  1,700 m / 5,200 ft
• Accommodation:  Hotel in Antigua
• Meals Included:  B, L, Snacks

Today we will back our things and back up the car and drive back to the beautiful town of Antigua where we started our journey. We arrive at Tecpan Ruins and tour the ruins for about 2 hours before we have lunch.

• Accommodation:  Hotel in Antigua
• Meals Included:  B, L, Snacks

For our final day of in Antigua we will be heading back to the infamous coffee farm La Carmona for another day of epic biking. For dinner we will have a farewell dinner with the whole crew!

• Distance:  20 km /13 miles 
• Max Elevation:  2,552 m / 8,373 ft
• Descent:  1,500 m / 4,600 ft
• Ascent:  1,000 m / 3,300 ft
• Accommodation:  Hotel in Antigua
• Meals Included:  B, L, Snacks

Today we will look back on our incredible Guatemala Gravity MTB vacation, do some last minute shopping around Antigua, and get your bikes packed up and ready to go home. Our 2Wheel team will take you to the airport and say goodbye until your next 2Wheel Epix Trip!

Meals Included:  B