The Mayan Adventure - Tours & Expeditions to Archaeological Sites in Guatemala
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Dry Season Expeditions
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Tailer-made
During the dry-season (mid of March – end of June) we love to organize tailor-made scientific expeditions. We visit Mayan sites just a few people have seen before!
In the northeastern Petén there are many unexplored Mayan city-states of great importance for the science. There are thousands of buildings – palaces as well as temple-pyramids – that have never been investigated and where nobody knows about what might be guarded underneath. Immense palace acropolis and high temple-pyramids overlook the jungle!
Such an expedition should take 3 to 4 days. We stay in camps of legal concessions of woodcutters, who do only cut one tree per hectare and who protect the rainforest and the archaeological sites lying within their areas against illegal woodcutters and looters.
Mayan sites like Holmul, Sibal, Chanchich, Witzna, Xultun, La Honradez, Chochkitam, Kinal Rio Azul and many others always fascinate the people going with us on an expedition.
We use these expeditions to check the state of the sites and count and analyze new tunnels from looters. So by participating at such an expedition you contribute to the knowledge about lost city-states and help getting forward with the science. It’s even not uncommon, that the woodcutters tell us about a new site they have seen while searching through the rainforest for trees they might cut. So we would change plans and go to visit that new site.
Prices on request
Feedback from Dieter's expedition with in March 2008:
Hello my fellow Mayanek,
I want take a minute to tell you what an awsome trip it turned out to be. Although the road conditions were not our allies, everyone kept their spirits up and I believe a great time was had by all. I came into this trip not having a clue what to expect...........and I got everybit of it...................and then some. Traveling to those ruins with you and Raul was quite the honor. You each gave me a much different perspective of the Mayan world and all that is going required to help preserve what has been left behind for us to explore.
I will write more later, but, wanted to let you know you were still being raved about. Everyone in the group was quite satisfied as I can see. I am looking forward to do more somtime soon.
Scott, USA