Visit the Caracol Maya ruins

River cave of Maya skeletons and artefacts.

Maya ruins reached by hand-cranked ferry, topped by the El Castillo pyramid.

Maya city in the Chiapas jungle with the tomb of King Pakal, howler monkeys in the trees and morning mist on the temples.

Four-day jungle trek to terraced ruins older than Machu Picchu.

The base for the ATM cave with its Maya skeletons, Xunantunich and jungle lodges.

Maya temples rising above the jungle.

The "museum without walls": grassy royal burial mounds, the Cheomseongdae observatory and Silla-dynasty treasures across the town.

Ancient rock-hewn town on the Silk Road, inhabited from the Iron Age.