The Future of Petén

Rio Paso Caballos

After three hours of sleep and a massive repacking job we head out from Flores bound for Carmelita where the road ends and our journey begins. We are embedded journalists now living out the intimate journey of Guatemalan archaeologists working at one of the rawest experiences in exploring Mesoamerican history. The past is the present for all of them and not a smile slips by unsmiled as they pass by the all too familiar route through El Petén. Some of them have been working here for the past twenty years and the more time I spend with them the more I realize that it is their story we have to tell.

Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T