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Once you get back to the Guate side, you should pop over to Quirigua (maybe the following morning). It's a beautiful site that has much in...

A day or two is plenty. ...

Downtown Denver, at least, has good public transit. If it's slushy, cabs are fairly easy to find.

Awesome, thanks! For the sake of planning, do you recall how long the trip is from Quillabamba to Huancacalle?

I can't speak as much to Salt Lake, but Denver is much under-rated as a city, and I think it has plenty to offer regardless of the season....

I'm on the Footprint guide to Peru at the moment, and it is excellent (which is Footprint's general reputation in South America, which...

There's plenty of English spoken in Rurre, though on most of the jungle tours you'll find that at least some Spanish will do you a lot of...

You could arrange it day-before, no doubt, providing there's space on the tour. But assuming you want to shop around or talk to office...

Tikal and Caracol are very different, and there are many threads on this forum where people offer their varying suggestions as to which to...

If you're worried about offending people when it comes to something as delicate as San Pedro, then I suggest taking a little more care with...

Found one!

Yes, I should have been more clear about that. The Maya never created (far as we know) a tangible object that could be called a calendar:...

No, but it's fairly close. About two hours by road and a short ferry ride, if I remember (it's been a couple years).

There is a lot of high-canopy jungle in southern Mexico and Central America, though most of the Yucatan is scrubby tropical dry forest....

Contrary to what every caption for photos of the Aztec Sun Stone will tell you, the Maya never made a "calendar." The closest thing you'll...