El Remate Vacations, El Remate Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

Little Businessmen We crossed back into Guatemala on this bus.  I think we paid something at the border.  I can´t remember now.  This bus was headed to Flores, but we got off early at El Remate.  This was recommended by Betty and others as it is at the crossroads to Tikal ruins and there is not much to do in Flores anyway. We were greeted at this bus stop by Ariel.  He is 9 years old going on 30!  He had his spiel down like all the other experien...

Mein Gott I couldn't quite believe it when I rocked up in El Remate.  The reason I was here was a chance encounter with a swiss couple within a milkshake emporium in El Estor.  They said "don't go to Flores because you can't swim.  Go to El Remate instead."  So I did and what a great decision.  Most of the accommodation is in or around the main road to Tikal, but another road wanders off north around the lake and has this little beauty situated bang on the lake. ...

The northeastern third of Guatemala contains less than 5 percent of its population, and is mostly jungle.  Pretty cool, er, well, it´s hot too. The main draw is Tikal, the heart of the Mayan empire for 1000 years.  My plan was to make 2 visits to see sunset there when the jungle comes alive, and I convinced this Canadian guy to come along.  We almost got stuck there because we didn´t make the last 6pm bus, fortunately he wasn´t pissed at me and we got a ride back even...

We discovered to our horror that on leaving Mexico we had to pay around 15 quid each to leave (237 pesos each). Of course we didn`t have this much Mexican money left after being told in Palenque that we only had to pay about a fiver`s worth of Mexican money. The immigration bloke told us to go back to Palenque to get the money from the bank (a 4 hour drive away) but luckily a French couple on our bus came to the rescue and paid it for us!! Luckily we had Guatemalan money to pay them back...