Visit Lake Atitlán

The world’s largest volcanic lake, with Batak villages on Samosir Island at its centre.

Hike between villages to a crater lake.

Berber villages below snowy peaks.

Hike between Hmong and Dao villages through emerald terraces cut into the mountains near the Chinese border.

Two-thousand-year-old terraces stepping up the Cordillera like a green amphitheatre — the "eighth wonder of the world".

Cliff villages of the Bandiagara Escarpment.

Trail beneath cliff-built Dogon villages and ancient Tellem granaries.

Twice-weekly highland market of textiles and masks, with Maya rituals on the smoke-wreathed steps of Santo Tomas church.