Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelHotel Mayab Flores
ATM Recap and a Day Off
Hello ...
It´s nearing the end of a long day in Flores, Guatemala. The sun set a couple hours ago and I can hear crickets chirping, and the sound of motorbikes and locals passing the hotel. The temperature is a humid, but breezy, 18 degrees Celcius.
I am mainly writing today´s post to catch up on sharing the details of the Actun …
The Temples of Tikal
Today we visited the site of the Tikal Ruins, an ancient and once-powerful Mayan city with many impressively high and spread-out temples. The unique thing about Tikal is the location of the site, deep in the rainforest, and as well the site is more fully excavated than many other sites in Mexico and Belize.
Carly and I opted to sleep in …
Hidden Temples
So given the reports on Guatemala and the fact we were running out of time we decided to just do a whistle-stop tour on our way to Belize to Flore to visit Tikal a huge Mayan site and apparently also the base of the rebel camp in Star Wars... geeky stuff!
The site is incredible and completely different to Copan which is more about the …
Tikal
At a more reasonable hour of 8am we headed back to Tikal for some wandering around. We chose to visit Temple 6 first which is isolated on its own and when we were in Tikal in 2000 was problematic with robberies. We were walking down to the temple when we were stopped by two armed guards who told us the template was a long walk but safe. It turned …
Travel Karma hiccups....
After yet another late night out with Tiffany-Jane I had the morning to do some shopping before heading to the airport to catch a flight to Guatemala, meet up with Justine and fly to LA, I got to Flores airport early as experience has told me that flights change without notice. Good job i did as my flight had been cancelled! There was another …


