+ Just for you to understand: we came all the way down to Guatemala just to visit Tikal. Of course, Guatemala surprised us so positively that we could have even left the country without visiting Tikal and still we would have like it so much. However, we did visited Tikal and and that added extra points to this wonderful country.
+ Tikal was an enormous Maya city which reached its apogee between 200 and 900 AD. It was actually not located in the jungle as it looks like (see the pictures). The jungle however has grown fast over it and today the place is fascinating. What you can see today of the place is just around 10% of the original city. Most of the rest is still under the jungle and being excavated.
+ We were really lucky because we took a local guide who was a genius. He stayed with us for 5 hours and almost didn't charge us money. We loved it and he loved to teach us. We discussed with him so much about all the legends of the Maya civilization and how so much wrong information is out there. The point is that many guides like to tell fascinating stories about the Maya which are actually wrong and therefore the missconception keeps on growing. He also tought us about the aminals and birds in the forest, the different types of trees and their fruits and other stuff. The only problem is that he pushed us to wake up at 3.30am so that we could see the sunrise... can you imagine??
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