Guides

Guatemala born, raised and educated, Alfonso and Diana Muralles have traveled throughout their homeland with visitors from all over the world. They organize and lead many of our Guatemala Highlands explorations. Alfonso first started guiding in 1982 for local and international non-profit organizations before starting their own specialized, small tour company. Traveling with Alfonso you will benefit from his extensive record of local and international leadership in community development, conservation and human rights issues, all of which have given him the communication skills, connections and organizing abilities to be a reliable, informed and enjoyable guide. Unlike other non-Maya Guatemalan guides, Alfonso offers you a particularly open and close communication with the Maya People after having worked and traveled around the world for 3 years as the personal assistant to Rigoberta Menchú, the Maya-K'iche Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He was Founder and Chairman of the Guatemala Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Association, Chairman of the Guatemala YMCA, Chairman of the Latin American Confederation of YMCA's based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Member of the Board of the World Alliance of YMCA's (based in Geneva, Switzerland), member of the board of the Ecumenical Church Loans Fund (Geneva), founder of the Guatemala Audubon Society, and Director of the Rigoberta Menchú Foundation (New York).