Guatemala: Under the Mayan Sky | Deadliest Journeys

Known for the beauty of its active volcanoes and its turquoise lakes, Guatemala is going through an endless economic crisis, making the country one of the poorest in Latin America. Whether urban or rural, all populations are affected and rely on their courage or the Mayan gods they worship. Tomas, a shaman, takes his apprentice on a pilgrimage in the footsteps of his Mayan ancestors to the city "El Mirador", one of the most inaccessible on the continent. To earn a living, Anthony drives a taxi in a tuktuk. Faced with competition from urban areas, he decided to tackle mountain roads where only 4X4s usually venture.
Directors: Julien BOLUEN; Charles COMITI

[@samuelramos2917]

Broke my heart when Anthony embrace his mom and sis and told her he wouldn’t leave them like their father did.

[@vondahe]

Yes. That was a boy who’d cried himself to sleep more than anyone should in a lifetime, now a young man determined to be a better man than his father. I daresay he already is.

[@thomasr5121]

Breaks my heart to see all the garbage ruining the ecosystems.

[@vondahe]

@@thomasr5121 Absolutely, but that’s another story.

[@markmcarthy596]

One of the coolest guys I’ve ever met, built like a brick chithouse, was from Guatemala. Eric Rodriquez, barely new English when he and is wife Maria moved to St Louis. After a few years I learned SO much about their ancient history and modern hardships. Could outwork anyone, and with a smile too

[@jpmkm1]

I bet people were afraid of his Guatemalaness.

[@markmcarthy596]

@@jpmkm1 - And never wore shoes 👞

[@mariasalgado7087]

​@@markmcarthy596😮😅😅OMG true.

[@markmcarthy596]

@@mariasalgado7087 -yep. Absolutely. ❤️= to you and yours

[@boondog8504]

Guatemalans are great. Honest, hardworking people.

[@KingCyrus-iw9yx]

This documentary isn’t all about the most dangerous roads, it’s about the daily struggle people go through in order to have a decent life. The diverse culture, religions, beliefs and social and economic activities of different people is also well documented here. Awesome job and thanks for enlightening us and taking us where we haven’t been yet. 🇰🇪❤️

[@fredmugo1596]

Kenya tuko pamoja

[@KingCyrus-iw9yx]

@@fredmugo1596 Chonjo kabisa ❤️🇰🇪

[@ramishrambarran3998]

Thank You for bringing these wonderfuld documentaries of the struggle for survival in countries we would never be able to visit in one life. Regards. Trinidad & Tobago. West Indies.

[@engegiger]

Watching from Switzerland

[@Edgar-rb5hr]

Gracias por documentar una gran y mínima parte de mi país... Está impresionante

[@KarmaFollowsMe.]

Thanks so much 🙏 for this Documentary

[@crisfer5015]

God bless them to have better opportunities so they can succeed...🙌🙌

[@skullcrusher8221]

Thanks for a new episode of deadliest roads, upload some more new ones 🎉

[@FMATheQuiet]

this is the most inspiring and heartwarming deadliest journeys episode!

[@xmaster10777]

I always loved the tuk tuk. They're just weird and cool.

[@user-nd8fq4qy9g]

It's not tuk tuk it's three wheeler moto buddy

[@aticknekong5296]

..in some country it's called tuk tuk. In my area it's called auto (short for auto-rickshaw) @@user-nd8fq4qy9g so, it depends..

[@xmaster10777]

@@user-nd8fq4qy9g ?

[@xmaster10777]

@user-nd8fq4qy9g then why they called them tuk tuk then

[@engegiger]

I drive a 3 wheeled, battery powered scooter, I like calling it a Tuk tuk. I live in a small town in Switzerland, gets me everywhere I need to go. I'd be lost without it.

[@frankordonez2826]

Nice professional documentary

[@aneesahmed2541]

Whenever there is a Deadliest Roads documentry, there will be an old Toyota Hilux or Toyota Landcruiser present in the scene. These vehicles are a staple of the channel.

[@lloydie.]

nothingelse but toyota 💪🏾

[@violetgilkes3625]

The drivers endless questions and high speed seemed to make the people more worried about getting to their destination safely😮😮😮

[@fredmugo1596]

What a beautiful, beautiful documentary

[@josemejangos5194]

Mi país bonita Guatemala!!!!

[@machseven2096]

“Two Shamans dancing is bound to wake up the elements” HILARIOUS

[@saravasquezlopez3709]

Exelet documental gracias por your vidio

[@SgtWhitebeardGaming]

@44:25 that look of that kids really get's you. Praying that somehow fate will give them a better life.

[@fredmugo1596]

Exactly that's one of the emotional parts on this doc😢

[@howlinwulf]

Id be proud to be mayan. Old civilization with beautiful costims and people. Gid Bless

[@cak463]

You would make a good sacrifice.

[@sierra5713]

⁠don't believe all the BS you hear from white history books. Remember theirs always two sides to a story and the history is written by the winner but it doesn't necessarily mean that that's what happened.

[@jameslewis8690]

MY HEART ❤ GOES OUT TO D'S PEOPLE .

[@Abgyus76]

Betapa popularnya Toyota hixul 4wd ini.. Tidak kira dinegara mana pun. Ditimur tengah, afrika.. Asia.. Mesti akan nampak kelibat Toyota hilux

[@Hndjdj400]

Always wanted to visit central America ❤

[@violetgilkes3625]

the kids are self sacrificing and hardworking. I hope things will get better for them and their families.

[@user-oj5sg9ot6y]

Oh yeah 👍 From Guam, USA 🇺🇸

[@thentil]

So tragic we let such economic inequality destroy lives needlessly.

[@RESET1776]

When the fat lady with a mouth full of gold said they where struggling it hit me in the feels 😂😂😂😂😂

[@nataliep6385]

You could tell that she really played it, even overplayed it - in front of the camera haha.

[@TacticalLulu]

😂

[@lovefestcentroamerica6053]

That shines but isn't gold xD but it still funny, what isn't a funny fact is: that is dental amalgam. Amalgam is a mixture of metals that primarily includes mercury, along with other metals such as silver, tin, and copper. Can be dangerous because of the mercury and is the cheapest way for poor people to fix their dental issues.

[@johnlounsbury6191]

wonderfull documentary

[@67622]

Great video, thanks for sharing.

[@user-xj2jk2hv9r]

Anthony is good man 👏👏

[@JennyThomas-nv8zh]

Great Video. Thank You

[@erik8046]

it breaks my heart to see how these children live. we need to appreciate what we have

[@crisfer5015]

I wish there's agency that cAn assist to have connection to this children and their families so I can help them instead of allowing them to dumpsites. It makes me so 😢 seeing them as I grew up in a very bad environment.

[@fredmugo1596]

It's very sad

[@vundyalaphanisheakerreddy2055]

Good day, love watching your channel, very interesting channel, Super Content,

[@amiranda4005]

How can we reach out and help, the mom with the tumors, and the single mom whose son works driving the Tuktuk? Where do they exactly live in Guatemala?

[@taz5573]

there are a lot of single mothers in America that needs help if you live in America why not help america first and the thousands of homeless American citizens living in the streets and sidewalks all over america

[@lovefestcentroamerica6053]

I think they live near Huehuetenango or Peten in the Mexican border, i live in Guatemala, but they show very different parts of the country so I'm not pretty sure. Could be a good idea to contact the producers and ask them, the world needs more people like you!

[@produccionesBC]

QUE VIVA GUATEMALA

[@jirinohavica7024]

Perfect real video..🍀

[@explorewithbaruah]

Dangers jarney but so nice place so nice hard worker brother and sister ❤

[@avidtraveller]

@ 44:05 Those poor kids. Little do they know that thousands of people who have the same idea will be disappointed too.

[@fredmugo1596]

Exactly i was thinking the same,it's very sad

[@dueldab2117]

Anthony's mom appeared to be very well fed. Maybe thats where all his savings is going.

[@blazed85]

31:34 This is me before I start watching this vid 😎

[@boooju]

He's wasting too much smoke 🤣

[@glitchmanshandle]

bruh, you had 7 as well?

[@TacticalLulu]

😂

[@SawadaMarko666]

That cigar was full of green stuff dude hahaha.

[@megakiller84]

🛺🛺truly amazing!✔👍👍👍👍

[@droma2366]

Who showed the female guide through the cave though? Whats her story? I wonder 🤔

[@cbgm1000]

Bajaj tuk tuk 🇮🇳🙏🏻👍🏻

[@bulmarobernal2106]

It is sad to see that what we call progress,is actually destroying our environment and at the end us, I think it would be better if we can go back to the way it was,poor of goods.

[@Rockstardontonny254]

Wow🎉🎉🎉

[@mihawk-qm2uf]

awesome

[@lequang2296]

Human destroying nature Liked & Shared

[@gyurmethlodroe1774]

they put that Toyota Hilux through its paces

[@susanvalyi9849]

I’m still watching. I can’t believe the conditions that Toyota is driving through. Holy shit.

[@fredmugo1596]

Which one Susan?

[@susanvalyi9849]

@@fredmugo1596 Do you mean like which episode? I didn’t realize. I’ll go check.

[@betyvelasquez8345]

❤❤

[@explorewithbaruah]

So different! Prey to god but so consenttration prey God ❤

[@tropicoeterno4848]

Interesante reportaje, no se como hacen para ubicar esas historias

[@scottkleyla7752]

I make white corn tortillas and watch,today I eat,maybe ?

[@josemanuelyoy]

Todo actuado, pero bonito.

[@Limewire1984]

The first time I started calling them tuk-tuk was after the movie Raya. I used to call them by another name.

[@rizaldepe8623]

Go on people we're not the one who suffers anyways!

[@Rcguyankid]

Someone needs to tell the toyota driver air down his tires to 12 psi dude has like 50 psi lol.

[@harmaengant8516]

31:57 MENGHISAP 7 CERUTU TANPA HENTI....BIBIR SENG...🙂

[@baibai8038]

When they tell mom, i feel it, and only tear.. i can describe..🥹😢 I am breadown..😭 forgive me....

[@kTyepthoyemishe]

😢

[@avidtraveller]

This is the second documentary that mentioned Euros as a form of currency being used. Doesn't Guatemala use the Peso?

[@caracolproducciones4517]

Guatemala use quetzal (1 euro: 8 Quetzal)

[@AkhaLosii-js6tl]

They should get a diesel Tuk Tuk from India.. It goes everywhere and costs about 5500 us dollars.

[@TacticalLulu]

Man idk, that river was pretty gnarly...

[@TacticalLulu]

Might be better to just get like a horse.

[@yogishmanjarekar7931]

Bajaj riksha is always powerful strong enough .

[@NH1969GOAT]

Walking barefoot through that dump

[@fredmugo1596]

44:12 you can see when the big brother is explaining his dream to migrate to America, the small brother is busy visualizing the dream in his head,😢 very sad.

[@vondahe]

Whatever you otherwise think of uncontrolled immigration, ANYONE with a heart can understand why these people want to go to the nearest, prosperous country and have a better life. Wouldn’t you? I would.

[@kewsiyehboah9514]

Swahili.. ya Kutuvia..

[@nunyabuziness8421]

Every one of these documentaries they got bald tires😂 you can't go anywhere in the mud with bald tires😂

[@qinisomabena9562]

These people barely have enough to eat, yet you expect them to have good quality tyres and you even laughing at their struggles. Pathetic.

[@TacticalLulu]

​@@qinisomabena9562yeah that's messed up. At least he's trying.

[@kaffeeundkippe1896]

❤ Guate

[@produccionesBC]

THAT BOY WILL REACH THE U.S.A. JUST LIKE I DID. NEVER GIVE UP

[@scottkleyla7752]

Hihi,Indiana US

[@Wizje4]

che giornale pazzesco

[@violetgilkes3625]

the poor sealife😢😢😢

[@nataliep6385]

I am 32 years old - I live in Denmark and I just got my early retirement settlement - 3700 dollars every month kek. Because of a little sore back :D I love my country!

[@sierra5713]

Yeah, but do you own your own house?

[@nataliep6385]

@@sierra5713 Nope, but I am currently saving up to one :) In Denmark when you are on early retirement, there is no restriction to how much you are allowed to earn on the side as well. :)

[@sierra5713]

@@nataliep6385 I get the impression that what you said was meant to show off. I am also thirty-two years old and I already own a house. I have three cars all paid off and I live in Mexico, which is a less developed country than yours. Therefore, I am doing better than you, who lives in a first world country.

[@nataliep6385]

@@sierra5713 I am better than you, because I do not live in a trash country like Mexico.

[@ysy5565]

Fuckiing Denmark from Poland 😅

[@susanvalyi9849]

Me again. The pollution is horrifying me to the core.

[@raquelmolina9746]

Me encantan sus documentales pero leo solo español. Es una pena no poder escuchar o leer en él. Aprendo mucho.

[@violetgilkes3625]

predes leer en espanol si tocas la rueda y escojer espanol en la lista de lenguajes

[@avidtraveller]

Most of the viewers know where all of this starts, consumer products. Fizzy drinks, wrapped produce, detergents and so on. It's not fair to blame the public for this but we are all responsible for it too.

[@Red-Robin4]

What is so sad is there is no American dream any more but they will earn a lot more than they are in Guatemala so I can definitely see why they would want to come here and I hope they make it. ❤

[@AL-BC94110]

Virgin Forest

[@TacticalLulu]

Wait why are there pigs at the dump?

[@Reeltime123]

All of us sit in your nice houses, on our couches watching these on our IPads and giant TVs, saying I had to fast forward it when those kids were shuffling through the filth and trash...Sad... You know nothing of places like this. The reality of this content is, 2\3rd of the entire plant lives like this. I have been to these places and seen the poverty. Kids with no clothes, make shift houses, no windows, no doors. sleeping in the elements, everybody hungry. All the while the Government officials living like kings. Everywhere you go the police stop you on those make shift roads looking for a edge. They see an American and will find something wrong and threaten to arrest you. They then take your money of items in your possession and send you on your way. Its just the way it is. The corruption of the governments are to blame..... Breaks my heart to see children and women like this.... But what can one do ? The majority of the plant is like this outside the civilized world....

[@thespiritof76.]

That's why I don't travel outside America.

[@abiudmwanda9177]

I used to watch your documentaries with fascination until when I saw your recent documentary in Kenya which wasn't real. Somebody carrying only 10 fish in a whole lorry 🚛........you lost credibility. Most of your roads appear imaginations and fantasy

[@Red-Robin4]

The pollution is killing all the fish in the oceans because this isn’t the only country throwing their damn garbage in the river ways that run into the ocean and shit!! I don’t understand people at all!!🤬

[@thespiritof76.]

I agree with you but what else are they supposed to do with it?

[@Shaktiman144]

Imagine fisherman catch fish plastic kill water life where will aquatic animal go?

[@adstix]

44:09 a human angle to immigration!

[@fredmugo1596]

Exactly

[@TacticalLulu]

I don't understand how the trash killed the alligator

[@thespiritof76.]

I honestly think that gator was fake.

[@shiny_swan]

that gator looked like it was made out of plastic

[@FreshtexBlackman]

@42:14 They're poor, they have nothing yet always find time to have babies that never seem to have fathers.

[@gabbycarter965]

Poor sharks 😞

[@JhonyGonzalez-hg2vw]

Y tú comes vaca y pollo. Porque te preocupas . No sientes nada.

[@NistorGenZ]

The opening of the video is very boring

[@Kixtia013]

These are B- translations.

[@thanhcuti363]

Would it kill you to add another 15 seconds for the celebration NBC.

[@musawwirsiyan9722]

namma bajaj doble flg

[@abdulqadir9637]

Only Toyota Hilux

[@Kxiong.1]

God has left

[@scottgordon8902]

Definitely abandoned a lot of places and people on this earth

[@kingwinter2024]

"God" was never there in the first place.

[@sierra5713]

There will come a time when you need of God and when it does hope he answers you

[@franordeix]

With how fat everyone is, I think they shouldn't be too hungry.

[@Kobac007]

Jeste sacekali ste i vi sa njima u sumi sumce odspavali verovatno ipod drveta . Vozac tu po standarnoj liniji ide svakih sat vr presvukli se istusirali u sumi i zajedno sa kamerama krenuli . Aj nee serite vise

[@vladimirassalukas6726]

Водитель пистабол-горе в семье 😂

[@AriYanto-l6y]

Pleace subtitle indonesia

[@violetgilkes3625]

touch 🛞 and select “captions” you can see a long list of many languages.

[@timwilliams2035]

treating the land like a garbage dump.

[@hleiva4821]

se dise chofer

[@mariomariony2168]

Se dise driver.