5-Day Trekking To El Mirador From Flores All Included Camping Tour

Flores Petén

This tour will start very early in the morning, at 7:30 am. We will pick you up in the lobby of your hotel in Flores or Santa Elena in the Peten department, and we will go to the community called Carmelita, north of Petén. The road is unpaved, and it will take us approximately 3 and a half hours to arrive. Relax, enjoy the road, and rest while we get there. If you don't want to get up early, we recommend staying at the Carmelita Hotel.

Carmelitas Community

Once we arrive at the community of Carmelita, you will meet the team that will accompany you: the logistics manager, the community guide, the muleteer, and the cooks. Before leaving, you will enjoy a delicious breakfast in a community dining room, and after having recharged energy with the food, we will start our walk. Are you ready for one of the best adventures of your life?

El Tintal

To get to this archaeological site, we will start walking for 3 hours in the middle of the jungle. Then, we will rest for a moment and have lunch in the Guacute or La Florida area, depending on the time of year. We will walk for 3 more hours until we reach our base camp in El Tintal.

We hope that when you get to Tintal, you still have energy. If the answer is yes, then we invite you to climb El Henequén pyramid. One of the highlights of this pyramid is that it allows you to have a 360 ° view. You will appreciate the beauty and magnificence of the jungle and in the distance, you will see the archaeological site of El Mirador.

At the end of the day, you will want to rest and refresh yourself. The camp has toilets, showers, a kitchen area, a dining room, and the camping houses have mats and sheets. Rest and prepare for day 2.

We will camp at the archaeological site El Tintal

El Tintal

We will wake up early in the morning to have a local breakfast. Then we will continue walking, exploring, and enjoying the jungle ... this is a tour that you will love.

El Mirador

El Zompopera will be our first resting point, it will give us enough energy to continue walking for a few more hours until we reach the Archeological Site of La Muerta.

El Mirador

In the afternoon, we will arrive at La Muerta, a small Mayan city located very close to El Mirador. This city has the oldest emblem glyph (the royal shield) in this Mayan region. After this little visit, we will continue walking for 45 more minutes until we finally reach the Mayan city of El Mirador.

El Mirador

When arriving at El Mirador, you will rest, have dinner, and share mythology stories with the community guide and the other members of the group. We will spend the night in this place and prepare for day 3. If you want to see a beautiful sunset, you can do it on the El Tigre pyramid, which will give you an impressive natural show.

We will camp at the archaeological site El Mirador

El Mirador

If you would like to start the day watching the sunrise, we can absolutely do that. Watching the sunrise in an ancient city is spectacular!

El Mirador

The day will start with a delicious breakfast that will give you the energy you need to start the day well. After breakfast, we will go to the Central Acropolis to learn about the history of El Mirador, the central point of this adventure. You will discover this city of more than 2,000 years old, in addition to learning about the Mayan mythology of the aquatic underworld, the sacred book of the Mayans called Popol-Wuj, its twin heroes, its relationship with nature, and much more.

We must not forget that the ancient Mayans were experts in astrology, agriculture, politics, architecture, science, mathematics and that is something that continues to amaze everyone to this day.

This day we will take advantage of the time to visit every detail that this exciting city offers, we will see some monuments exposed to the public with masks that show the deity Jaguar-Solar, also called Kinich Ajau located in the Tigre Complex, in addition to visiting the astronomical commemoration center.

La Danta

To close the day with a flourish, we will visit the greatest construction ever made by the Mayans, La Data. The summit of this trip will be when we can appreciate the sunset on the top of this immense construction.

We will camp at the archaeological site El Mirador

El Mirador

We will wake up early in the morning and have a rich breakfast. This is the day where we will return to Tintal, but before we will make a final visit to the archaeological site of El Mirador. We will visit the city's hydraulic canal, which is a Pre-Classic architectural marvel, and also served as a protective wall for the city against any external threat. We will not leave without you knowing their impressive ball game and the meaning it had for them.

El Tintal

We will arrive at Tintal before sunset .. there we will spend the night in the camp and prepare for the last day of our tour.

We will camp at the archaeological site El Tintal

El Tintal

After enjoying a delicious breakfast, we will start walking towards the community of Carmelita. 

Carmelitas Community

Here ends this incredible adventure of 5 nights and 4 days. We are going to close this experience with a flourish, you can try one of the traditional dishes available. We will eat in a community dining room. Eat like a real local and learn about Mayan gastronomy. In addition, you can put your name on "The Wall of Fame" and bring a lovely memory of this place. We hope you enjoy it to the fullest and that you come back soon!