Getting to and away

Fortunately, micro-buses run through Chisec very frequently. Buses to Cobán (1.5 hour, $1.80) leave every 20 minutes from the carpark one block south of the municipality from 4 a.m. to 6 p.m. Microbuses to Playa Grande (which drop you at the entrance to Laguna Lachuá park) in theory go every half-hour from the street corner two blocks south of the parque central, while microbuses to Raxruha go every 20 minutes (1 hour, $1.80), a little less frequently to Fray Bartolome de las Casas; they can drop you at the entrance of one of the Candelaria caves complexes. Buses north to Sayaxche and the Peten ($6, 2 hours) are frequent throughout the day as well, going hourly up the main street.