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WHAT TO EXPECT?

visit and explore Yaxha, From San Ignacio, Belize, your driver will pick you up at your hotel and we will travel to the border with Guatemala, our driver will explain the issue for border procedures, on the side of Guatemala your Tikal Expedition guide will be waiting to start the tour.

Yaxha It is located in the northeastern part of the department of Petén, in the municipalities of Flores and Melchor de Mencos. It was the capital of an extensive territory that dominated the northeastern part of Petén, although it had very strong links with the city of Tikal, Caracol, in Belize, and Calakmul in Mexico. It has monumental complexes with pyramidal temples, Acropolis, twin pyramid complexes, commemorative complexes, Ball Games, palaces and domestic residential complexes.

The Park has an extension of 37,760 ha. In the park there are numerous cities, being the main ones besides Yaxha, Topoxte, Nakum and Naranjo; which played a very important role in the social and political organization of the central lowlands for more than 1,500 years.