Ancient Mayan Cities of Guatemala Uncovered | Tikal, Yaxha, and Ixpanpajul

Join expert guide Marlon Diaz and I as we explore the Peten region of Guatemala. Marlon shares with me the history of the Mayan civilization and the sites of Ixpanpajul National Park, Tikal & Yaxha, and Monkey Island.
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[@SarahFunky]

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[@Estuardino71]

Good job you guys, and congratulations to my guatemalan paisano for having such smart and beautiful wife. Maybe you guys have time to make it to El Mirador a Mayan city farther north of Tikal.

[@SarahFunky]

@@Estuardino71 Aw thanks! We will head there on our next trip to Guatemala!

[@jmejiaespinoza5859]

Hola linda te saludo de guatemala peten buen video me gusto mucho gracias por visitar nuestro hermoso pais vendiciones 🌷🌷🌷

[@elpatitofeo8566]

Great video love it thank you for sharing your experiences 👍👍

[@imgodzilla6818]

Im Mexican & i like watching these videos & learning about other nationalities!!!🙏🇲🇽❤️🇬🇹

[@brittneysarnoski590]

My mom is from Guatemala and it makes me very happy to see fellow American millennials represent her country with such love and respect, since the media does a great job of doing the opposite lately. Love this video so much, and you two are the cutest couple!

[@SarahFunky]

Guatemala is a beautiful country. I love showing how special it is!

[@shenyhernandez2050]

I am from GUATEMALA It is call. El Pais de la Eternal Primavera I left my beautiful Country.5eatiful Country 5 years ago. I have never been in Peten. I am very proud of my beautiful country. Here in America I married to a Cuban Good looking boy. And all the Cubans That left Cuba in the 60,'s with his family a well known Family, used call Me. " La Niña de Guatemala" bebdicion

[@chapinusmaximus4582]

Good evening Sarah, I'll tell you why Guatemala, Tikal and "our" Mayas are so misunderstood and sooooo underrated. Unluckily, whenever people say "Mayas" they relate the Mayas to Mexico; but, the truth is that they are totally from Tikal, El Peten Guatemala as oficially mentioned by Richard Hansen an archeologist from the University of Pennsylvania who has been studying the Mayas in Guatemala for more than 20 years. I always knew the Mayas were from Guatemala - but, it is sad that a lot of people don't know where they are from. I am totally proud to be from Guatemala and know my ancestors were really intelligent and men of science, mathematics and language. Thank you again.

[@danrivera9986]

I left Guatemala with my family when I was 8 to come to America. I’ve missed it ever since. Un día regresaré... ❤️

[@GusRamirez95]

My family is from Guatemala, so seeing this video makes me want to visit Guatemala even more!! Great Video!! Keep up the great work.

[@SarahFunky]

This means so much to me. Thank you!

[@alexrodas9912]

I'm really glad you enjoyed Guatemala! We hope you come back to discover more of our beautiful country!

[@Johannym]

The Mayans ruins are so beautiful, I was lucky to visit one in Mexico. I need to go to Guatemala and visit more will definetely check these beautiful places when I go.

[@alinotic]

Almost 8 years ago I learned about Tikal and Mayan architecture. I was amazed and promised myself one day I'd be there. Finally, if the world allows, I'll be in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and maybe Belize next year. It's a dream! Congrats for the beautiful video!

[@AhmedAli88]

Absolutely enjoyed listening to Marlon Diaz and watching the video !!! Thanks for the great video :D

[@DavidAnuszewski]

Great video!😍 Watching you walk up ancient temple steps was very pleasing to see.

[@Reyeesss]

My homeland 🇬🇹💙 thank you for posting this beautiful video!!!!

[@SarahFunky]

You have a beautiful country!

[@theinternet6341]

@Ana Reyes Please go back.

[@elchapin5307]

Welcome to guatemala 🇬🇹❤️

[@billycatalan6758]

I dios q pais tan lindisimo dios lye vendiga muchacha grasias x mostrarnos ese pais tan lindisimo

[@01bumptious]

I was impressed by this video. Thanks 😘

[@theman6123]

Thanks for showing my country Guatemala 🇬🇹

[@victorarias9770]

I really liked this video, you show the wealth that our ancestors built, there are many wonderful places in Guatemala that will make you fall in love, enjoy watching your smile, I hope to continue watching more of your channel, I send you a big hug.

[@SarahFunky]

Thank you so much! That means a lot!

[@osvinyanes9735]

I absolutely love this travel video and glad you made it. This hits home for me and it’s probably one of my all time favorites. Thank you Sarah for such amazing content.

[@SarahFunky]

Thank you so much!

[@manuelbarreto6205]

How beautiful is Guatemala.Greetings from Los Angeles Ca...

[@SarahFunky]

You must visit someday!

[@rolbhinb.72]

Awesome video! I miss flores, Petén 😵😵

[@SarahFunky]

It is a beautiful place!

[@elizabethyanes5065]

I LOVE this Sarah. such an amazing video. This is a very special video for my family and I ❤️

[@SarahFunky]

Thank you and thanks for joining me in tikal!

[@Jenniferobrien]

Wow are you a professional travel host?! You should be! So good! Don’t eat them Luis, nooooo :( great transition to Tikal after bugs, so well done!!! I need to go what a beautiful place with so much still uncovered I learned so much what a beautiful video!!!!!

[@SarahFunky]

Thank you! I wish I was a professional travel host. Hopefully someday!

[@taradodtarado]

8:47 best part!

[@alfx5432]

You said it

[@TheNOVAlbert]

I absolutely love Tikal.

[@mattbrownruns]

so phenomenal

[@SarahFunky]

Thank you! I hope you subscribed!

[@charliespacegt]

Wow wow wow!!!! amazing video! Congrats

[@SarahFunky]

Thank you!

[@thewarriorofdubstep]

*Very amazing video!!! I enjoyed it very much thank you, I myself am Guatemalan from my Fathers side born in sunny California. To aswer your question from the beginning of the video on why nobody was there, It's because Guatemala has a hard time getting through together as a whole United Nation state.... politics, foreign policys, and corruption are some of the major reasons why Guatemala hasn't been able to take advantage of their National identity and promote tourism on an International level. As another KZbinr remarked when he visited Guatemala "The national pride that hides beneath the Guatemalan jungles is absolutely mind Blowing"* *Trust me there's too much to cover on why this is going on just to give you and example...* *The giant stone head found in Guatemala was supposedly destroyed by revolutionaries but those who are up to date and know what happened in Guatemala know very well that it was ordered by foreign organizations to destroy or seize all "Unknown" Artifacts in the State of Guatemala.... The only reason anybody even Found out about the Giant stone head was because someone actually bothered to document it's discovery in their personal journal..... Guatemala has been robbed of thousands of anccient cultural artifacts if not millions... Some who have done this are the Brits, Germans, Spanish, and in more recent times the Americans and Canadians..... the messed up part is that they display it in their National Museums as trophies to reel in tourists.... Something Guatemala should be doing with those stolen Artifacts* *Too much has happened and is still happening as we speak Guatemalans are also constantly fighting off mexican traffickers who loot Guatemalan sites and bring it back to mexico claiming it was found in their national lands....* *Idk if You're husband knows but Guatemalan history has been covered up and Re-made by those who have committed these crimes against the Guatemalan community......And till this day we are still targeted, Look up the recent "Military Drills" that took place in Los Angeles the building they conducted a "Training" was indeed the Guatemalan House of Culture........ They jacked something of value not trying to sound crazy but it could even be Alien or spiritually based who knows all we know is that Guatemalan Cultural center is boarded up and locked down......* *What did the Guatemalans do to get invaded, Piliged, Puppeted, Destroyed.... and till this day enslaved to a certain degree....... I have no idea, We have many looking into this.... best we could come up with were some actions done by heads of the Guatemalan state from 1829-1965 it's something that took place back then too many "Strange" occurances happened unfortunately based on what we could gather things still dont make much since as in some parts do... it's like a broken up story.... we'll go world wide once we find out* *Thanks for sharing stay advetourous!!!*

[@SarahFunky]

This is all so fascinating! Thank you for sharing!

[@frodocomarca535]

Chicas hermosas felicitaciones un video muy profesional, gracias....saludos y abrazos..

[@SarahFunky]

Muchas gracias!

[@zener0777]

I love your video, thank you for your visit to my country =)

[@Ichi7424]

Muchas gracias por tu video de tus días en Guatemala, 🇬🇹❤️🇬🇹😚😚 me encantó tu video, los datos que proporcionas y me fascinó esa parte de tu paso por las isla de los monos👍👍👍👍👍 Muchas gracias y ojala puedas regresar, otro lugar muy interesante de visitar son las ruinas de: Zaculeu, Mixco viejo Quirigua, Iximche Te gustará, gracias nuevamente 🇬🇹❤️😚

[@BP-kx2ig]

I am very interested in the Maya and have visited Central America to visit Mayan sites so I know a bit about them

[@BP-kx2ig]

.I meant to say 5000 years is absurd, The civilisation is probably less than 2500 years old

[@amsmorales2193]

Beutiful Guatemala I would like to visit.🖒

[@michaelfunk1794]

I LOVED it there! The history and wildlife are amazing and so interesting. Check out the bestselling book Jungle of Stone by William Carlsen. It's the story of the "discovery" of the Mayan temples in 1839. At that time no one could believe that indigenous Americans could have created something so spectacular! But they did!! The greatest civilization in the world at that time. Their written language was very advanced. Curiously, the Incans and Aztecs, who came after the Mayans, did not have a written language.

[@SarahFunky]

Wow, that's so interesting that they didn't have a written language. I'll have to read that book!

[@amsmorales2193]

Beautiful place. Guatemala 🖒

[@franciscofernandez1224]

Nice videos of my country...thanks. 3:40 beautiful view

[@SarahFunky]

Thank you!

[@nickgunz]

Amazing Content ❤️

[@carlosriverafan4856]

Thanks for sharing my beautiful country

[@javieroxlaj5498]

Wow Just Amazing place...!!!

[@SarahFunky]

Thank you! It is so special!

[@sfjg138jo]

Good job 👏

[@SarahFunky]

Thank you!

[@verasilva7660]

Great video!

[@SarahFunky]

Thanks Vera!

[@brandonramirez6112]

Hey beautiful thanks for appreciating the beauty of my country, but I suggest you to visit El Volcan de Tajumulco. the highest pick in Central America. it is surrounded by unique architecture. I was born there.

[@Judy122550]

I am a new subscriber & I am so happy I found your channel this video is awesome I learned some things .I am a history lover. Thank you so very much for putting this together for those of us that will never get to Guatemala. That was so good your husband got to go back. I am from North Eastern Pennsylvania have a lovely week ( Judy )

[@giovaniaragon370]

I suggest to look some history books she have not idea how ancient this civilization was

[@jaliyahverlasha]

Sarah One of the best videos. Thank you for that. Would be nice with how much to enter, when and access, buses etc. Enjoyable the History nonetheless. Brilliant!

[@francisvalparaiso]

Sarah you are everywhere!!!

[@SarahFunky]

I try to be! haha

[@PrincipeGL]

Its my original beautiful contrey, Guatemala 🇬🇹 ♥️ 💖

[@andycante6907]

Love you

[@yourfavoriterussianyoutube3621]

Do more New York videos🙏. Love your channel ❤️

[@SarahFunky]

Thank you! More NYC videos are coming in April! Stay tuned :)

[@dariomeridamorales4231]

Very. Very. Good

[@Angelhernandez-hp7zd]

Guatsup Sarah great video greetings ..

[@LuisYanes88]

Those termites were delicious for sure! I wonder if that was a normal snack for the Mayans? I learned so much about my culture on this trip!!

[@SarahFunky]

Another great example of how you will eat anything haha

[@awesomelife3680]

Sara is beautiful. She makes the best videos too. Good energy.

[@jessicahansen4167]

My family is going to Guatemala for a last hurrah for my dad before he is too disabled to be able to travel in September. I would love to find a link for Marlon Diaz if he is still doing tours

[@jakemate4697]

new sub😍😊

[@oliverfabrissio170]

Awesome video! Are you guys going to Semuc Champey anytime soon?

[@SarahFunky]

No but I'll check it out! Thank you!

[@blancayanes3761]

It’s awesome that you were the only one there Sarah when are you coming back to my house

[@SarahFunky]

Yes! I'm going to be back in March!

[@dariomeridamorales4231]

Good. Good. Good

[@luislopez8538]

es mi país Guatemala

[@allfredo7753]

Ahh Guatemala- 'tierra de una historia en curso, de colores y contrastes' I wrote this in my tourist brochure The Guatemala Experience- 1992! As a Greengo its easy to fall in luv with Guatemala as it does have a lot to offer. Yet, to answer your question while you were in Tikal (One of my favorites!) why no one there? Here in the US as a 'fat & spoiled' Westerner I know from my own Guatemalan business trying to get tourists south to Guatemala- that Tourismo is a great biz when everything 'clicks' and there is No obvious problems; but- if the Western tourists feel, hear or smell any possible thing 'out of wack' (Danger!) they don't come- they cancel and stay home- No pelotas! (My Big tour for- W. Europeans was a 4 country-2 wk tour- as they'd fly into Cancun and we'd do the Big Mayan sites around Yucatan, over to Belize- the islands and then overland to Tikal and then fly into Guate.- we'd based ourselves in Antigua and from there day trips to Atitlan, Chichi. and Xejla and finally heading south and crossing over into Copan and finishing up on Roatan island!!! Obviously the average American doesn't have this kind of time- so cater to Europeans and they're more adventurous as well!! For myself I ended up marrying a Filipina and when we get a chance its these days always back to the Philippines. But still, I have to say- Guatemala is a wonderful country and it offers much much more to see and do than almost any country I've seen. Benous surerte!

[@CarlosGonzalez-js9my]

I am from the area but never seen anyone eating termites 😀

[@devinmorales7949]

Promoting this! Loll

[@fabioparpanesi5455]

I love u, that’s it

[@SarahFunky]

Thanks haha I hope you subscribed!

[@fabioparpanesi5455]

Sarah Funk already did darling And I d like to subscribe for our marriage as well, if possible Ciao Sarah, u ve been doing a good job

[@sagemaster3408]

Ok. We get it. We see ur shorts. Jeez. Every shot. U had to put it in.

[@infinixinfinix4788]

I hope you are fine! ❤

[@LuisManuel059]

Nice Videos . Where You Froom

[@jameiepeter]

1893 Brooks Summit

[@CrichtonGloria]

643 Collins Mountains

[@Angelhernandez-hp7zd]

I love funk Guatever 😂

[@stormrungaming]

You guys live down there?... I have some coordinates you guys can check out I've found on google earth.

[@lopezfrancisco7724]

What lake or place call where you interact with monkeys??

[@juanvaliente3101]

😎👍👍👍👍👍

[@mohamadahmed8775]

2:06

[@ericvaria7807]

Buena vieja se consiguio el paisano / congrats compatriot you got a beatiful wife!

[@osielvelasquez775]

Nice vídeo, thanks to visit my country, do you have a new suscriber.

[@SarahFunky]

Thanks for watching! 😀

[@keepz8931]

We all know that the mayens we're Africans from Africa and that the civilizations did not desapeare they simply went back too Africa crossing the Atlantic ocean . The first Americans were Africans . The Africans were crossing the Atlantic ocean centurys even thousands of years way before Columbus.

[@antonpolyakov3140]

you very lovely

[@anubhavakaxperience762]

Pub g players....this is the sanhok ruins.....

[@stormrungaming]

*ate termites thinking they would taste like something other than what they ate...

[@giovaniaragon370]

You don't have a idea how ancient this civilization is

[@richardmartin404]

"The Thumbs evolved off?...

[@philiphodgesnz]

not 5,000 years old though, otherwise nice

[@Zilla702Killa]

I never subbed to this channel wtf

[@SarahFunky]

Please do! Also, I love your user name haha

[@andrearatkovic4048]

Quit encouraging more tourism to these ancient sites which causes more destruction.

[@giovaniaragon370]

500 years old I recommend you to do some estudies and get facts straight you time is completely wrong

[@Jenniferobrien]

Wow are you a professional travel host?! You should be! So good! Don’t eat them Luis, nooooo :( great transition to Tikal after bugs, so well done!!! I need to go what a beautiful place with so much still uncovered I learned so much what a beautiful video!!!!!