Aguateca
Good to know
- Best time to go
- December to April; boat access is easiest at higher water early in the dry season
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- not-accessible
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
A fortress-like Maya city perched on a bluff above the Petexbatún lagoon, abandoned suddenly around 800 AD and unusually well preserved as a result. Access by boat through wetlands full of herons and crocodiles is half the experience.
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