The Maya town of Chichicastenango, in the heart of the Quiché region, has one of the most impressive indigenous markets in the American continent. It offers a wide variety of clothes made by the virtuous Maya hands. The tour starts with the amazing landscape offered which can be seen from the vehicle that will take you, traveling on the sinuous road trough the high mountains, until the crowded town. Neither Spanish nor English are spoken amongst the people at the market.
The town has a church at the center of the market which a Mayan rites temple at the atrium and a Catholic sanctuary devoted to Saint John inside.
At this town the famous Maya book: The Popol Vuh was written five centuries ago.