Journey to The Ancient City Tikal

The trip from San Ignacio to Guatemala’s ancient city Tikal was absolutely incredible. This Mayan sacred site is a must see for anyone travelling through the area or near it. It’s an ancient city which is still being excavated and has numerous tall towering temple structures that look over the high canopy of the tropical jungle.

Here you will find incredible wildlife in the preserved rainforest jungle, and beautiful sacred geometrical architecture masterminded by the highly advanced Mayan empire.

The actual site location is strategically placed in a position of great energetic power that matches the natural energy ley line crossing points on the earth. There was no natural water source located there, so the Mayan’s engineered an elaborate system of aquaducts and resevoir pools to bring water from afar and keep the city with a readily available supply of water.

The temples have also been built to match up with star constellations, and earth cycles that are recorded and held sacred within the Mayan calender.

Our guide Louis, was an amazing Guatemalan medicine man/Mayan Timekeeper. He was just a wealth of knowledge on the traditional ways of the Mayan people, their spirituality, and how the Mayan ways match-up and interconnect with spiritually advanced cultures around the world. We couldn’t have had a better guide, he was teaching us about plants and animals as well, spotting them and pointing them out to us when we would’ve otherwise just passed them by. Amazing!

We saw Howler monkey’s in the treetops and a coatimundi, which is essentially a jungle racoon. I caught them both on video which you can view on YouTube by clicking on the following links:

Howler Monkey Video

Coatimundi Jungle Raccoon Video

The main plaza of Tikal was an incredible site to see. The harmonics were incredible. Louis informed us that the temples structures had been specifically designed to create harmonic amplification so that the king or whomever was speaking to the people in the plaza could easily be heard by all participants. A single clap of the hands would echo and be heard all around as though it were coming from all directions.

Here’s a link to my video mix of various temples at Tikal including the main plaza.

Tikal Temple Video Mix

Here are some pictures below that were taken throughout the site.

Until next time, Peace & Prosperity,

~Jambhala