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GUATEMALA | Sat, 3 Oct 2009 | By joealotto13 | Views [57] | Comments [3]
I stayed in a village called Al Remate about thrirty minutes outside Tikal. I stayed as close as possible because the park opened at 6 am and I wanted to be one of the first ones there. I managed to walk into the park at 6.10 and I was the first on ... Read more >
Tags: tikal, guatemala, mayan ruins
GUATEMALA | Thu, 1 Oct 2009 | By thefuegoproject | Views [126] | Comments [2]

Flores to Punta Gorda 26/8/09 - 6/9/09 545 km
What kind of sound does a howler monkey make?... It’s 4am and we awoke to the sound of howler monkeys singing in chorus through the canopy of the jungle at the ruins of Tikal. It was a call ... Read more >
Tags: guatemala, belize, cycling, caribbean sea, tikal
GUATEMALA | Tue, 31 Mar 2009 | By rachel_and_daniel | Views [240]

We left Chetumal and got a long-distance bus going straight to Flores, Guatemala. This involved heading down through northern Belize again to Belize City, and then across to San Ignacio and over the border. We drove through the Peten basin ... Read more >
Tags: tikal, flores, suicide dogs, languin, semuc champey
GUATEMALA | Wed, 11 Jun 2008 | By ma_and_pa | Views [111]
We left Lanquin early in the morning heading off to Flores with a tourist minibus. We stopped briefly in Copan where Turgay and Amy found what they said was excellent banana bread. As we continued on the eight hour journey we came to a river at Sayaxche.... Read more >
Tags: tikal, flores, guatemala
BELIZE | Tue, 10 Jan 2006 | By true-claims-stories | Views [1342] | Comments [1]

We crossed the border from Belize and got a taxi from the Guatemala border to take us to Tikal. The border road is very rough, with huge potholes, and therefore slow going. About 15 minutes into the journey, two masked gunmen jumped out from the jungle ... Read more >
Tags: scams & robberies, bandits, belize, tikal, true claim stories