TIKAL NATIONAL PARK, Guatemala — This spectacular Mayan ruin nestled in northern Guatemala’s dense tropical jungle is about as far from civilization as you can get, but the wake-up calls are every bit ...

Explore the Mayan ruins of Tikal in Guatemala, where we arrived at 4 AM to experience the site without crowds. Tikal boasts a remarkable collection of both fully and partially excavated pyramids and ...

The ruins of Tikal are surrounded by a national park — 57,600 hectares of rainforest and wetlands. In comparison, the center of the city is small, about 400 hectares of temples, terraces, roads and ...

Eco-Esquela is less than two hours of one of Guatemala's most impressive -- and popular -- tourist destinations, the great Mayan ruins at Tikal. The region's one good road leads straight from the ...

Fifty-seven foreign tourists have been freed after being trapped for two days in Guatemala’s famous Tikal ruins, as a blockade by former civil war-era paramilitary fighters demanding government ...