Temple I Tikal National Park

... , Mexico. The town of Palenque isn´t anything to write home about so I won´t. We stayed instead at the entrance to Palenque national park, in the middle of the jungle where they´ve built a series of sweet little cabins and an awesome bar/restaurant of all ...

... ;     I sit outside my room at the Jungle Lodge, one of three hotels located inside of Tikal National Park. It's aptly named: in front of me lining the balcony stand towering flowers, and spindly howler monkeys deftly leap from branch ...

... we reached the ticket counter, which was manned by a clerk and a Guatemalan guard with a shotgun.  This was the first national park I had ever been to that required armed guards...  The clerk asked for our money, but didn't give me the tickets ...

We hadn't originally planned to visit Guatemala but after hearing several travelers rave about the Mayan ruins at Tikal, we added it to our itinerary. This is where traveling without specific plans has it's advantages. Against Mom's protests, we caught a ...

... the first couple of wires when we got to try out "superman" (harness back to front), as you can see in the photo it does look like the guide is enjoying himself quite a lot too holding my legs. Next stop, back to Guatemala City and then to San Salvador

... of the sunset.   We arrived at Temple IV (The temple of the two headed serpant), at 64.6 metres this temple is the highest in Tikal, we climbed half of this height and positioned ourselves to await the sunrise. As the light developed, views of the ...

... moved to a room upstairs at the first opportunity the following morning!  After a frantic few days of travelling across Guatemala we decided to have a day of rest before embarking on any more adventures, enjoying a good sleep in, a very ...

Greetings from Guatemala! Lauren speaking. Our several alarms buzzed and chimed at 6:00 this morning, ringing in the start of an amazing day. The sun, and most of the other residents of the Jaguar Inn, had already risen by the time we got to breakfast. ...

Day 2 Guatemala, The Great Maya Ruins of Tikal in the jungle and Howling Monkeys!   No sooner had we got to sleep then we were up again it was very hard work moving like robots and communicating by sign language the three stooges found themselves ...

... kinda like being in an indianna jones movie. The temples were incredible.  It was still misty when we made it up to the top of temple IV, the tallest mayan temple in the world, but we got some good pictures.  I liked our guide a lot--he was ...

My fourth weekend in Guatemala I visited Tikal National Park.  Tikal was a major Mayan center before Mayan power transferred to the Yucatan.  It was one of the largest, if not the largest, Mayan cities.  The structures in Tikal are some ...

... up! Me, an American mother and daughter, and an Argentinean biologist were picked up and driven the 63 km to the Tikal National Park. Naturally, our rooms were not ready, so we just quickly changed into some more jungle-friendly clothes and deposited our ...

... beds for their crops collecting dirt from the many sink holes that naturally happened in the area.  Mayan settled in this part of Guatemala around 700 BC and was an important city by 250 AD.  Jeremy and I hit the ruins with the 5 a.m. bus ...

... monkeys. These critters have massive throats and sound like a crazy T Rex!. we climb 71 meteres to the top of the temple and wait for sunrise. To say the view was orgasmic is an understatement!.... tree tops for infinity with two oher lost temples ...

... that organises treks to tikal and the surrounding jungles. The main reason to visit Flores and the northern department of Guatemala is the ruins of Tikal. There are a few options to visit the ruins and not being one for tours and big tour groups i ...

... . We made a quick stop at El Remate at Lago de Peten, a very picturesque spot. We opted to stay within the Tikal National park so we could do the sunrise tour the following morning. Tikal is definitely the most impressive ruins we have seen so far. What ...

... . Abandoned sometime after 900 AD. Rediscovered in 1848. It became a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1979. Tikal is a 550 square kilometer park with more than 4000 separate ruins. My first impressions: walking through the jungle on dirt paths, ...

... is stunning. But the pyramids are high and it was hot, very hot!!! We spent over 4 hours walking around this magnificent national park and whilst doing so we saw loads of amazing birds, including a type of Toucan!!!! It was not the classic type ...

Got up early to visit the Mayan ruins at Tikal National Park, arrived at the park at 6.00 am.  It was really quiet when we got there and we decided to head straight for Temple IV (the highest temple in the park), on route through the jungle we could ...

... midday crowds (relatively successful), and drove the hour up to Tikal from El Remate. Only until you actually drive into the Tikal National Park, the Peten really does look like the rest of the Peten driving up to El Remate: kind of hilly jungle ...