It's five hours on the bus to Flores, a small island on Lago de Petén, connected to the Guatemalan mainland by a causeway. While pleasant enough most only people stay here as a jump off point to Tikal, the largest excavated Mayan ruins - or the 'mother of all ruins' as described by my guidebook.
Tikal is amazing. Giant towering pyramids pierce the dense rainforest canopy, filled with toucans and howler monkeys. Tikal is different from Copan, Chichen Itza and most other Mayan sites because it's buried deep in the jungle.
(Photo - view from the top of Temple IV)
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