EL SALVADOR , HONDURAS AND GUATEMALA IN NOVEMBER 2016

On 10th day of our trip we went by a boat to La Union in El Salvador. First from Leon to Potosi along beautiful Nicaragua- lake seeing the magnificent San Cristobal vulcan. Next day brings us to the ruins of old Maya city Jaya de Ceren, which was destroyed in year 590 by vulcan Lama Calderan. Luckily all inhabitants could escape then. We later arrive to capital San Salvador, where we spend the night after a roundtrip in the city. On the way to Honduras we pass an ancient Maya city Copan which was found in the jungle in 1839 by Juan Galido.
 Our route brought us to Guatemala,where we visited another Maya city Quirigua with great stone statues, the weight over 65 tons. There was also at Rio Dulce a fortress build by spaniards against pirates in 16th century, Le Castillo de San Felipe.  After overnighting in Flores we arrived to Tikal, the pearl of the Mayas! Tikal was found in1848, but it was opened for tourists around 20 years ago.
I remember my first visit there in 2006, and a lot has been done there since. The oldest temples there are from 600 B.C. but the classic Maya culture florished  there around anno domini 300-800.
The highest pyramids are about 70 meters. The jungle around is rich of all kind of animals, and after darkness forbidden for people. After Tikal we drove to Mundo Maya Airport to continue by flight to Antigua, the former Guatemalan capital. Having been in this beautiful colonial city before I spent my day alone with some glasses of very good red wine in this Unesco's World Heritage site. The city was badly destroyed by an earthquake in 17th century, and still 10 years ago practically nothing was done.
Now anyhow they were re-building the cathedral and some other medieval buildings.
The last two nights we spent on Atitlan-lake in a very good 5*-hotel. I relaxed the last day at the pool enjoying the view to the vulcans on the other side of the lake on a perfect day.
By the way one of those vulcans had erupted some days earlier, but without no considerable harm.
In all, our trip was very lucky, two days after we left Costa Rica, there were heavy tropical rains and big flooding, in Nicaragua was an earthquake but we had just sunshine except one day in Costa Rica.