Explore the art, architecture, and cosmology of the Maya with this Approach Guide to over 12 sites in Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. One of our best selling guidebooks, it is packed with detailed reviews and high resolution photos to help you truly appreciate each site you visit during your trip.

Use our travel guide in Mexico, Guatemala, or Honduras, to gain a deep understanding of Maya history, symbols, and architecture.

For each profiled site, this guide helps you identify what is most important from an artistic and architectural standpoint, what characteristics make each site unique, and how each site fits into the big picture.

To give travelers a complete understanding, this guide also profiles non-Maya sites, such as the famous sites of Teotihuacan and Tula outside of Mexico City. These sites influenced or were influenced by the Maya and are critically important for appreciating how the Maya fit into Mesoamerican civilization as whole.

We hope you enjoy what we believe is a totally unique cultural guidebook to the best Maya sites in Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala.

Detailed reviews of these destinations:

Mexico Guatemala Honduras
- Bonampak - El Mirador - Copan
- Chichen Itza - Quirigua
- La Venta / San Lorenzo - Tikal
- Palenque
- Teotihuacan
- Tula
- Tulum
- Yaxchilan
Italicized are non-Maya sites that exerted influence on or were influenced by Maya civilization.

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