Tikal, El Mirador

El Garra del Jaguar (El Mirador)--face of a jaguar, to the left and right of the face are it´s claws (garras)
EL Dante from below (in El Mirador). The Largest Temple Complex in the world. 72 meters high with an extremely large base.
Me on El Tigre (second tallest pyramid in El Mirador) just before sunset. My camera ran out of batteries just after this photo. . .
Almost all of the crew after a long day of hiking. At La Muerta (on the outskirts of El Mirador)
Me boiling in the afternoon sun on top of Temple IV, the tallest temple in Tikal (64m high). Below is the Plaza of Tikal taken from an apposing temple.

I just got back from 6 days in the jungle. It was such an awesome experience, we hiked a total of about 150 kilometers through flat jungle (all the hills were not hills, but ruins that have been over taken by the jungle). El Mirador is a hige complex of ruins, an ancient city dating back to 300 BC and even earlier. The Mirador Basin consists of a network of cities, El Mirador being the biggest, including El Tintal amd Nakbe, where we stayed for the first, and fourth nights. I will spare you all the dry details, but it is an amazing place to see first hand, and again, the pictures just can´t do it justice!
Our guide, Angel, knew all the details of the jungle, including medicinal remedies for snake bites and malaria, as well as the history and intricasies of the ruins. He and the rest of the crew were a great pleasure to be around for 6 days (which says a lot!). More details later, I am done with computers right now!

Oh yeah--and the day before I went to Tikal. I can´t compare these two ruins, as one has been rebuilt and preserved, and the other is hardly touched by archaeologists. . .