Westin Camino Real Tikal Tikal National Park

... what went wrong? All civilizations must come to an end...........<br>Still, on the plus side we saw, among other things, a picote (browny racoon like animal) wolfing down the food the tourists were illegally giving him, plus 2 creatures that looked like large Guina Pigs/small capybara and a load of strange birds. Not a peep from a monkey sadly, or the resident Peten Crocodile though. <br><br>We absoloutely loved the remainder of ...

... carrying on - sounds like lions roaring. Amazing Mayan ruins. They were discovered in the mid 1800s but have only recently been excavated and even now very few of the pyramids and other buildings have actually been examined. They have years of work here to complete. This complex is huge and was begun about 500 BC and then peaked about 800AD. It had about 100,000 inhabitants and probably was abandoned when drought or other ...

... it was the smallest airplane I have ever been with - with room for only 13 passengers and clear vista to the two pilots in the cockpit. As we flew northwards, the mountainous and fertile land of the south was replaced by the equally fertile planes of the north. And after just 50 minutes we landed in Flores &#8211; in the equally different heat and humidity! The biscuits I had bought at the supermarket the previous day really came in handy; as it would turn out that I ...

... the Myans could have paid more attention to the detail.<br>It does however have its own mysticism and feeling and i would think runs a close <br>joint second with the Pyramids at Giza.<br><br>It has just occureed to me, How lucky i am to be wandering around rating the worlds<br>most beautiful wonders!! <br>Which reminds me, after a day of washing clothes (its not all glamour you know!)<br>we are off tomorrow morning, early, to the globes second biggest Barrier reef....<br><br>Adios Amigos <br>

... rice and tourists.... 2 hrs later and we are ready to leave... Arrive at our destination town Flores, nice pretty town 30km from Tikal... <br><br>Then an early start following morning to Tikal which is set in the middle of a tropical rainforest. This was not a normal park... this thing was vast with Mayan temples scattered all round the place. Well they believe up to 90,000 Mayans lived here so hence the vastness.<br><br>We spent 5 hours ...

... on the muddy road down to the entrance of the caves. Thankfully a tour was going through just as we arrived so we joined the back of it, although there is no need to go with a guide. The caves are all lit with lights and there are steps and a walk way built that takes you deep into the caves, however it is incredibly slippery and in some places treacherous, as weird shadows are thrown up by the lights and fantastic rock formations, stalactites and stalagmites loom ...

... of a journeyman. At first when I saw him, I thought he was some joker because his outfit looked somewhat like a pirate: thick black pants, sturdy boots, loose white shirt under a black vest, two earrings in his left ear and a three-pointed hat. It took me some time to strike up a conversation with him, but it was worth the effort because we discovered we were kindred spirits. I hope I run into him again some day.<br ...

Tikal is my favourite ruin in Central America! I don't even know where to start... great ruins, great people, great accomodations, great forest and nature and animals and great learning! <br><br>We stayed at the entrance of Tikal National Park. There is a restaurant and 3 hotels and a campsite to choose from. We camped since we had the gear. The site was beautiful and we ...

... der er sikkert alligevel meget der endnu er ukendt. Jeg har selv interesseret mig mest for pyramidekonstruktionerne. For mig er det fascinerende, at folk, så mange forskellige steder på kloden er blevet inspirerede til at bygge disse pyramideformede konstruktioner. Arkæologerne har mange traditionelle forklaringer og hypoteser, på pyramidernes oprindelse og anvendelse. En del af disse teser nærmer sig givetvis en god forståelse af pyramide ...