El Remate, Guatemala Travel Blogs

Into Guatemala and Tikal
Oct 11, 2004 (8 photos)

... we walked across the causeway to the town of Santa Elena and from the market we caught a collectivo to the little village of El Remate (15q / 35mins). Posada Eden lived up to it´s name as it had lovely little bungalows with views of the lake for 60q a ...

Tikal Ruins
Oct 12, 2007 (19 photos)

Tikal Ruins

Guatemala!
Feb 20, 2007 (14 photos)

A bus - boat - bus journey brought me to Flores, a very nice village, which forms a tiny island in lago Peten Itza (connected by land by one bridge). I did the trip completely organised by an agency in Palenque but could as well ...

Our last stop (this time) in Guatemala --Tikal --
Nov 12, 2006 (7 photos)

Sat. 12th was another real early travel day (do you see a pattern forming?). We were up at 6am and walking to the bus terminal to get a bus or micro up to tikal. It ended up being microbus, boat, microbus, chicken bus. It was a long 9 and 1/2 hours of ...

El Mirador - Mayan Lost City Trek
Oct 16, 2007 (67 photos)

... BC) under another one (200AD).  The archeologist was so astonished by the discoveries they were making here!  He claimed that El Mirador was much larger than Tikal which is one of the largest city of the Mayan Empire.  He showed us a big ...

Tikalled pink
Jul 3, 2005 (6 photos)

Our guide to the ancient and vastly impressive junglebound Mayan temple site Tikal nudged us to ponder the question of how the people more than 2000 years ago were able to haul these massive stones here and erect the temples without the use of wheel. I ...

Mayan Tempels at Dusk
Oct 21, 2007 (6 photos)

We arrived and stayed our first night in Flores, a cute laid-back town on an island in the middle of Lake Peten Itza. Flores acts as a base for many Tikal travelers. The next day we took a shuttle to Tikal, the most famous of Mayan ...

Surrounded by the mystic of TIKAL
Nov 26, 2001 (2 photos)

The sleep was good in the quiet jungle surroundings. No too much mosquitos, or maybe all my available blood have been drained yesterday. I woke up when it was still dark outside. With no electricity in our room, i yelled quietly at Juliette for her ...

Road to Uaxactun
Nov 26, 2001 (2 photos)

We took the chicken bus around 2pm towards Tikal, our destination was beyond Tikal to a smaller ruin of Uaxactun. This was my idea after convincing Juliette we needed some off the beaten track adventure. We were the only non-local on the bus. The bus was ...

Tikal
Feb 25, 2006 (46 photos)

It took a whole day to travel from Belize to Flores. Its a nice place and thers a great choice of places to eat, eventually choose a place that overlooked the lake. Its a 4.20am start for the 5.00am bus from Flores to Tikal. If you were to rate the ...

Maya pyramiden
Jul 24, 2009 (26 photos)

... erst nach und nach freilegen. Eine Tour mit Guide habe ich nicht gemacht, mach ich beim nächstem mal, mit 62. Allgemein Guatemala: Super grün und schön, viele Menschen die noch unter einfachsten Verhältnissen leben (weil Milch hier so teuer ist, kriegen hier ...

Tikal ruins
Aug 8, 2007 (10 photos)

... been twice as long, effectively taking 2 days. So despite the expense we got ourselves an extra day by flying. The town of El Remate is a really small place on the shore of Lago Peten, about 40 minutes frmo Tikal. We took a 5am bus to the ruins ...

Mayan Ruins
Sep 19, 2006 (5 photos)

Arrived in Tikal around 4:45am. Tikal has the most magnificent of all the Mayan ruins. The ruins are in the middle of the rainforest and was where the 3rd episode of Star Wars was filmed. Well, a scene of Star Wars anyway. To travel through a ...

Tikal: Mayans didn't walk this much!
Dec 16, 2005

Many visitors to Tikal National Park try to get to there before sunrise so they can climb to the top of a pyramid and watch the sunrise. I'm told it is a very spiritual experience. To me, sleeping past sun up is a very spiritual experience. Our bus ...

Ruines mayas.
Aug 10, 2007

Bonjour à tous, Voici les dernières informations concernant mon petit moi au Guatemala. Avant hier, je suis parti avec Pierre en direction de Tikal. Tikal est un parc nationnal où nous pouvons observer des ruines mayas. On est parti vers 2 heures de l'après ...

El Remate and Tikal
Jul 31, 2007 (8 photos)

I arrive in El Remate which is a town very close to the Tikal Maya pyramids. I meet Jamie, Lacey, Jen and Tom here and we stay one night before going to the pyramids the next day. Tikal.. Towering above the rainforest, Tikal is possibly the most ...

Tikal, Guatemala
Jul 2, 2006 (5 photos)

... ¨King Great Jaguar Paw¨ and ¨King Moon Double Comb¨. Finally tonight is my last night in Guatemala as tomorrow I realise a long time dream and head to the Caribbean Island of Caye Caulker in Belize.........

TIKAL
Feb 5, 2009 (27 photos)

We decided to take our time getting to Guatemala City, mostly because my cold had become pretty severe, so we decided to leave the tent up and take a nice leisurely day visiting the huge ancient mayan ruins at Tikal. Im not even going to try to describe ...

Temples of Doom
May 15, 2006 (4 photos)

Tikal is a Mayan temple site in the middle of the jungle in Northern Guatemala. Enroute to the site, the weather turned wet pretty quickly and it didn't take long before we found a fallen tree had blocked the road. The locals were pretty quick with their ...

El Remate
Dec 26, 2008 (1 photos)

    Hola from El Remate. This morning we woke up a little later, had some breakfast made by Theo, our host at the Parrot Nest and headed out.  We tried to find a mechanic because the crazy bumpy roads have caused our car to lose a bolt ...

Tikal, Guatemala
Apr 11, 2007

Tikal, Guatemala

Towering Temples and Howling Monkeys
Jan 11, 2008 (6 photos)

... , complete with fish and turtles. It was fun to watch them and John enjoyed feeding them with his tortillas (which he is now throughly sick of!) One final beer to round off our last night in Guatemala and then it was back to packing for Belize tomorrow!

Star Wars in Tikal
Apr 12, 2007 (6 photos)

... -van service every few mintues for a 10th of the price the tout offered - sorted. We arrived to El Remate and found a great hostel, our room was open air, elevated on stilts overhanging a hillside and overlooking the ...

Adventure in the heart of the Mayan world!
Aug 28, 2007 (48 photos)

Today we traveled into the heart of the Maya world- untamed and mystical. It is where one finds the treasures of some of the most importantly Maya cities hidden away; an incomparable destination for history and adventure lovers. We left at 6am and arrived ...

El Remate - Relaxing beside the lake
Oct 19, 2008 (7 photos)

... finally arrived in Central America. This was raw, this was the Central American way of life. We are currently in El Remate, in northern Guatemala, staying in a great hostel overlooking a beautiful lake. This is the first time in a long time we have been ...

Tikal and El Remate
May 26, 2005 (12 photos)

... is constantly trying to take over again. We saw sunset and sunrise from on top of the temples, then heading to a nearby town, El Remate, for one night. In El Remate we discovered some of the best pizza I've ever tasted (which happened to be down a ...

Now I've slept in some weird places but this one..
Jan 29, 2007 (1 photos)

The day started well with a few bargains.  The local taxi drivers wanted $25 to take us to the border so we decided to wait for the bus.  However, two minutes later a local guy pulled over and offered to take us for $5. The border crossing ...

Border jumping
Jun 25, 2008 (27 photos)

Cay Caulker to San Ignacio to El Remate, Guatemala, So we finished up the islands with an amazing day of snorkeling, the highlight was defiantly the feeding of the sting rays. It was scary and amazing, they were huge and had their stingers fully intact. ...

Wochenendtour nach Tikal
Aug 8, 2004 (25 photos)

... an sich, eher der Absturz desselben). Mit so einer fliegenden Handtasche flogen wir also nach Tikal - ca. eine Flugstunde nördlich von Guatemala City. Schon bei unserer Ankunft gegen 7:30 Uhr war es recht warm und schwül (die Wärme dort oben, war mit den ...

Tikal (A long time ago, in a land far, far away)
Mar 30, 2007 (11 photos)

Humble apologies for the lateness of this entry folks - don't be confused if you've looked at this entry before and the cupboard was bare - it is being written almost 2 weeks late because internet prices in Belize are excruciatingly expensive ($5USD per ...