I'm a Guatemalan who's watched tourists repeat the same mistakes during trips to the Maya ruins. Many people mistime their visits and enter the parks at peak heat and humidity. Some tourists ...

Editor at large Arnie Weissmann recently spent time in Tayasal National Monument, a work-in-progress excavation of a Mayan ...

Experiences like this make a visit to Tikal memorable. The El Peten rainforest that surrounds the archaeological treasures left by the Mayan civilization is alive with life. Howler monkeys often ...