Guatemala

Tikal

A city shaped by Maya history and forest Approaching Tikal through the Petén forest, the first impression can be misleading: the visible temples seem to rise from an empty wilderness. Tikal was a major Maya city whose civic, ceremonial and residential landscape grew within a living tropical environment. Its forest is part of a protected cultural and natural setting. UNESCO’s record traces a documented dynastic sequence from 292 to 869 CE, spanning 1,161 years and…...