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Tikal National Park Slideshow
Tikal National Park
Travel Blogs from Tikal National Park, Guatemala
Tikal and other Mayan Ruins
This is a top pick! ... , 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 ...
Ancient Ruins and Howler Monkeys
This is a top pick! ... ; 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 ...
Tikal Ruins
This is a top pick! ... to Tikal to see the sunrise (5am). On the way we saw beautiful red skies as the sun came up. When we arrived, Tikal National Park was very peaceful and then the jungle suddenly awoke with the noises of the birds and monkeys. Unlike Chichen Itza it was ...
Totally Ruined!
This is a top pick! The 4.30am departure from Flores for the day trip to Tikal National park was painful at best. But when the heat (and the insects!) crept in around 8am, we fully comprehended. The ancient Mayan city ruins of Tikal is buried deep in the jungle ...
In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle
3:00AM- I’m sleeping soundly in my bungalow at the Jaguar Inn at Tikal National Park in Guatemala. I’m due to wake up in half an hour for a hike through the jungle to catch sunrise from atop the Mayan ruins. You can imagine my frustration at ...
Tikal Ruins
... , 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 ...
Kingdom of the Ancient Maya
... ancient ruins, knowledge of the site was never completely lost in the region. It seems that local people never forgot about Tikal and they guided Guatemalan expeditions to the ruins in the 1850s. Some second- or third-hand accounts of Tikal ...
Tikal, Guatemala
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 ...
Day 9: From Bungalow to Jungalow
... salt in our hair. Nevertheless, we boarded our plane which turned out to be a small propeller plane, and we headed off to Guatemala. The airport in Flores was little more than a large garage, so that was interesting. We were greeted by men in face masks ...
Quoi t´es mal la?
... en continuant notre périple dans un Guatemala vide de touristes que la plupart des tour operator ont annulé leurs voyages au Guatemala car 27 personnes ont été décapitées la semaine passée dans un ranch a quelques dizaines de kilometres de Tikal ...
Don't Forget to Scrub Below Your Ears
... . The next day we hired a boat guy, Benjamin (pronounced Bayn-ha-meen) to take us to the Reserva Bocas de Polochic, a national park made up mostly of swamp, and various swamp-loving creatures. Even though we were only in a large canoe with an ...
Flores / Tikal Ruins & National Park
... 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 ...
Tikal - Fantastic Mayan World
... into a 20 seater minibus and awaited departure. After a barely conscious journey and moiré precious sleep, we arrived at Tikal. It was now 4:30am, our guide Luis oriented us before leading us through a number of checkpoints to verify we were ...
ATM
... , however, so on refection probably worth the money. At 5pm we took a Taxi across the boarder arriving in Guatemala, and have now been in Tikal one night (Tikal- the biggest Mayan sight in the whole world- I think). I found an amazing spider this ...
Tikal - Most Famous Mayan Ruins in Central America
... do Tikal, nejznamejsich mayskych staveb ve Stredni Americe. Cesta z Flores trva cca hodinu a pul a kolem pul devate dorazime do Tikal. Vzhledem k Vanocum je tam minimalne turistu a na nekterych mistech jsme sami. Jsem tam s belgickym chlapikem a jeho ...
Tikal of the Jungle
... Maya, and it was one of the most important urban centers of its time. Immersed in the Petén Jungle in Tikal National Park, the grounds are expansive and inspiring, and it’s difficult to determine which is more impressive—the accomplishments ...
The wonders of Tikal
We got to Tikal at about 7am before the main tour buses arrived. Tikal is a vast complex of Mayan temples and buildings right in the heart of the jungle the sise of Belize (people do get lost for days there without a guide) ...
TIkal - Maya City - Rain Forest Paradise
... through the trees), and learnt a lot about the Maya cultures – amazing and extremely educational day out. Tikal National Park was declared a Unesco World Heritage site in 1979. Wowing experience… Hitting Belize tomorrow and back ...
The Mayan Ruins of TIKAL!
Our guide book suggests that Tikal will exhaust you before you exhaust Tikal. As soon as you enter the park's grounds, the forest becomes deep green everywhere. Straight through the gates you walk up to the giant ceiba, or kapok tree. The Ceiba was ...
Ruinen mitten im Dschungel
Heute waren wir in Tikal. Tikal ist wirklich ein sehenswerter Ort. die Bilder sagen wohl alles. Die Ruinen liegen mitten im Dschungel in einem Nationalpark. Damit man die ca 20 km von der Einfahrt in den Nationalpark zu den Ruinen die ...
Day 10: Beware of feces flinging monkeys
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. ...
Jungle Ruins/pure blue waters - sound familiar!
... and making friends with all the lovely people there. Now we are back in Flores - God it has been raining alot, i think Guatemala is experiencing a delayed wet season. However, yesterday the sun came out and we swam in the lake that surrounds this ...
WORLD CUP FOOTBAL IN THE UNIVERSITY CAFETERIA
... the Uruguayans but pleased for the Dutch. We flew from Guatemala City to Flores and then motored to our hotel at Tikal National Park. This used to be one of the hotels constructed for the archaeologists when Tikal was being researched and ...
Thursday: Into Guatemala!
... . Lunch in San Ignacio (but no overnight stop, as we had been expecting - good reason for that - see below). Drive to Guatemala border was uneventful - lots more rain - and we must've looked an amusing sight dashing from the van to the border checkpoint ...
Transported into the ancient Mayan world
... the treetops at the other tall, ancient buildings soaring 70m into the air and just peaking through the foliage. The whole experience is almost indescribable and left us in awe at the ability of the ancient Mayans to produce the amazing buildings of ...
More time exploring amazing mayan ruins
... tourists most of the tourists were package tourists and we seemed to be the only independant travelers / young travelers around. Tikal is a really amazing park just for how dense the jungle is and so little of the actually area has been cleared out you ...
Tikal!
We got up at the CRACK of dawn this morning to try to get to tikal for the sunset. However, we were thwarted by the fact that the park didn't open until 6 am, plus it started raining. We had breakfast at one of the local hotels, a nice buffet, ...