Tikal
February 26th 2013 On Thursday Feb 25, Paulino picked us up in the little town of Flores, a small town that is the capital of the State of Peten in Guatemala. It is an island in Lake Peten Itzá, the last holdout of the Maya against the Spanish conquista, remaining an independent native city until 1697. (The first to fall was Q'umarkaj, 174 years earlier. The Peten was just too remote and hot to bother with, app
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