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Lake Atitlán and the volcanoes seen through banana leaves at Granja Tz’ikin
Granja Tz’ikin · Tzununá

There is more here than a bed and a view.

Some of it is scheduled, most of it just happens. Here is what the farm and the valley have going on — come for one of these, or arrive with no plan and let the week decide.

Rain falling through the bamboo ramada over the restaurant deck
Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Three nights in a row

Friday is open mic — the deck fills with people, most of them musicians or close enough, and the mic is open to whoever wants it. You do not have to play; plenty of people come to listen. Saturday is poker. Sunday is pizza night, the wood oven running and the tables full. Arrive on a Friday and the whole weekend is already planned for you.

Walking the growing beds and food forest at Granja Tz’ikin
Fridays at 2pm

The farm tour

We walk you round the beds, the food forest, the water systems and the animals, and explain why each thing sits where it does. About an hour. If you only do one thing here, do this — it is the difference between seeing a pretty garden and understanding a system that works. It runs on a voluntary contribution — give what it was worth to you, and nothing if that is where you are. And it lands on open mic day, so come at two and stay for the evening.

Production beds and growing tunnels at Granja Tz’ikin
Grown here

Eat off the farm

The kitchen cooks with what the farm and the valley produced that week, so the menu moves with the seasons. There are vegan and vegetarian plates, not as an afterthought. And the goats live directly under the restaurant, which guests find out when they go down to meet them.

A group harvesting sweet potatoes together at Granja Tz’ikin
Learn something

Courses and workshops

Permaculture design, mushroom cultivation, natural building, fermentation — run by the people who built this place and use these skills daily. Some are one afternoon, some run for weeks. What is on depends on the month.

The domed earthen temazcal at Granja Tz’ikin, surrounded by garden
On site

The sauna, and moving your body

A wood-fired sauna in an earthen dome, surrounded by garden. Ecstatic dance and yoga happen here and at neighbouring spaces along the valley — Tzununá has a lot of this, and word travels between the houses faster than any calendar.

A waterfall falling between high rock walls in the canyon above Tzununá
Ten minutes down

The lake and the waterfalls

The lake is a short walk downhill and the waterfalls are a walk up behind the village. Both are free, both are worth the morning, and neither needs booking. Ask us for the path before you go — some of the trails are better than others.

How to join any of it

Just ask us

The weekend runs itself: tour and open mic on Friday, poker on Saturday, pizza on Sunday. The rest moves month to month. Message us on WhatsApp with the dates you are thinking about and we will tell you what will be on while you are here.