Guatemala News » Peten News Guatemala » Peten: A Slow Traveler’s Guide To Visiting Tikal, Guatemala’s Great Maya City
A short flight from Guatemala City to Flores puts travelers within reach of Tikal. Staying on Lake Petén Itzá turns the trip into a slower journey through jungle, villages and Maya history. This voice ...
News Guatemala » Peten: Guatemala declares state of emergency in Petén
President Alvaro Colom declared a state of emergency in the northern Guatemalan province of Peten, which borders Mexico and Belize, in response to the killings over the weekend of 27 farmworkers by ...
News Guatemala » Peten: Exploring Remote Ruins in Guatemala’s Jungles
When it comes to tracking treasures of antiquity, your average American traveler will usually set his or her sights across the Atlantic on the ruins of the Roman Empire in Italy, the temples of ...
News Guatemala » Peten: Maya Artifacts Recovered from Guatemala’s Lake Petén Itzá
KRAKÓW, POLAND—Science in Poland reports that teams of Guatemalan and Polish researchers recovered several hundred Maya artifacts from Lake Petén Itzá, where the Classic period Maya capital of ...
News Guatemala » Peten: El Peten Airport, Tikal, Guatemala [ TKM / ]
Current time and date at El Peten Airport is 11:03:38 AM (CST) on Friday, Nov 14, 2025 Looking for information on El Peten Airport, Tikal, Guatemala? Know about El Peten Airport in detail. Find out ...
News Guatemala » Peten: I was born and raised in Guatemala. Here are 10 big mistakes I see tourists make when visiting the Maya ruins.
The Maya ruins are on many travelers’ bucket lists, but that doesn’t stop them from making mistakes once they get there. As someone born and raised in Guatemala City, I got used to tourists from ...
News Guatemala » Peten: Maize was likely "nutritionally and symbolically central" to the diet of many ancient Maya peoples, per analysis of bone and teeth samples from Petén, Guatemala
Upper image: The archaeological site of Curucuitz, in southeastern Peten, Guatemala, where maize is still grown today. Lower image: The A-630 vessel from Ixtutz, depicting four individuals, arranged ...
News Guatemala » Peten: Charming lakes, volcanoes and Mayan ruins: why everyone is flocking to Guatemala
On a balmy morning in April I'm sitting in the courtyard of my hotel at the crack of dawn watching Lake Atitlan, waiting for the clouds to drift and reveal the three volcanoes that dominate its ...
News Guatemala » Peten: Guatemala: Brutality and Impunity: Over 28 Decapitated in Petén
This weekend in Guatemala was the bloodiest of 2011. Citizens in El Petén, the northernmost department (state) of Guatemala bordering Honduras, Belize, Nicaragua and Mexico, are in the middle of one ...