TravelPod Member ReviewsHotel Mon Ami El Remate
“Relaxed”
upriver 6 contributions
Sydney, Australia
Aug 29, 2011
A great option if you want more than another tourist hub, in this case Flores.
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Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelHotel Mon Ami El Remate
Mayan ruins and monkeys
We thought we would start with a visit to a lesser known site, to get us in the mood. We headed off to Yaxha, best known for it's location overlooking a lake and jungle. Hardly anybody there at the site, with it's various temples in the jungle. We got distracted at one point by what sounded like animals fighting in the jungle. Naturally, we headed …
El Remate and Tikal
t feels like it has been days since I worked on my diary and I suppose that it has been. Our days have been really full since we arrived in El Remate. We chose this as our base camp for going to see Tikal; but happily found it to be more than worthwhile on it's own. Our lodging was an the Mon Ami which consists of an open air dining area and …
Water, Birds, Walking
After our brief stay on the small island of Flores, we traveled north by bus to the small town of El Remate. The bus driver dropped us at a junction and then we walked the short way down the dirt road to our hotel--a lovely bungalow on the shore of Lago de Petan Itza. This is a giant lake--the same one we were at when on Flores. Our bungalow has a …
Paradise Found
At 7am this morning we arrived in Flores, and continued our trek to El Remate, on the east coast of Lago de Peten Itza. To say it is beautiful is an understatement. Being here has forced us to slow down and enjoy the natural beauty of the countryside. We are staying in a thatch hut literally in the middle of the jungle run by french guatemalans. It …
"I know better than nobody"
At the crack of dawn on Saturday (more precisely 5:30am) we hopped on our collectivo bus with Emily to visit Tikal. A 40 minute drive through the dense jungle and we arrived at this magical place. After some haggling, we secured a guide, Samuel (An Antigua native who is studying to be an archaeologist), who was quite an expert - he told us he even …


