{"id":21157,"date":"2025-01-06T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backpackerswanderlust.com\/?p=21157"},"modified":"2025-01-19T08:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T19:47:31","slug":"acatenango-volcano-hike-difficulty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backpackerswanderlust.com\/acatenango-volcano-hike-difficulty\/","title":{"rendered":"Acatenango Volcano Hike Difficulty: BEST GUIDE (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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While in Guatemala you seriously need to make sure to do the Acatenango Volcano Hike. In this guide I will share everything you need to know including the Acatenango hike difficulty, much how is it, the best tours to book, what to expect, when you should do it, and so much more!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seriously this isn’t just one for your Guatemala bucketlist, this is one to chuck on your worldwide bucketlist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the day you will watch the smoke, rocks flying and ash clouds rising upwards towards the sky. Then once night falls a completely different show starts as lava lights up the darkness forming rivers down the sides of Fuego Volcano. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In saying that nothing comes easy, and for such an impressive show you do need to work relatively hard to get to camp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I won’t lie, when arriving in Antigua<\/a>, this was not on my itinerary, I mean, I simply like to think I know my limitations as a plus-size traveler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every backpacker who was encouraging me to take the leap and do it seemed to be fit yoga buffs who had been hiking all around Central America. This was not me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how exactly did I figure out that it would be possible for me to achieve this? Well, I will get into this and more below so you can decide whether hiking Acatenango Volcano is right for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hiking Acatenango Volcano: What To Expect, Difficulty, & BEST Tips<\/h2>