Archaeological Park and Ruins of Quirigua

Mayan Ruins

It was a hour and a half drive from our cruise ship which was berthed at the port in Santo de Tomas. Set in a tropical rainforest this is a fascinating Mayan World heritage site. It was made all the...

Interesting park

This was a very interesting archeological Park where the Mayan Kings at their peak erected sandstone statues documenting their accomplishments. It take about an hour to walk through the whole park and...

A tranquil and fascinating Mayan ruin

If you are going to visit Eastern Guatemala, Quirigua is worth seeing. It was about a two hour drive from Chiquimula, where I was staying, and it's in the middle of a Del Monte banana farm. The Este...

Slowly recovering from the hurricanes of last year, still gorgeous

The archaeological park is busy cleaning mud off the monuments from the hurricane last year, which left standing water and mud up to three or four feet up the surface of the monuments. However, since ...

Chirigua Archaeological Magnificence

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The car journey from Guatemala City to the archaeological complex of Quirigua was quiet, by a asfalt route of regular traffic that took us something more than 4 and a half hours, all by int...