Join Marvelous Spatuletail Tours on this Central American venture. The aim of the trip is to make a serious attempt to combine birding with archeology. This is the perfect trip to bring a non-birding spouse. Nevertheless, the birding will still be aimed to see all the endemics and specialties. To make it the most for both birders and nonbirding spouses, we have opted to use fine hotels close to the archeological sites, which themselves are excellent for birding. We will visit the most famed Mayan ruins such as Palenque and Tikal, and both birder and non-birders will be astonished by the feats of this lost advanced culture. The trip ends on lovely Caribbean Cozumel island where you may opt to stay for additional days of snorkeling and diving.

The trip will be supplemented with local archeology guides.

Yucatan program (15 days):

Day 1. To Cobá first stop. Visit ruins. Stay night here for nightbirds. Stay at Club Med.

Day 2. Bird AM. Midday drive to Rio Lagartos. Flamingos in PM and looking out for Bare-throated Tiger-Heron. Best to stay in Tizimin or Rio Lagarto (to be decided later)

Day 3. Early morning birding until 09.00, especially looking for things like Yucatan Bobwhite, Mexican Sheartail and Lesser Roadrunner and Yucatan Wren. Drive to Chichen Itza. Visit ruins PM. Drive to Merida. Night at Gran Hotel.

Day 4. Morning at Dzibilchaltun, drive to Uxmal. Night Hacienda Uxmal or Club Med close to ruins. Good light show at night..)

Day 5. At noon Flight to Palenque. Usamacinta marshes. Stay at Hotel La Cañada

Day 6. Palenque ruins all day

Day 7. Palenque ruins, pm San Miguel rd

Day 8. Search for lovely Cotinga in AM. At noon flight to Tikal

Day 9 -12. Tikal

Day 13. Fly to Cancun. Bus and ferry to Cozumel

Day 14. Cozumel-In the evening travel back to Cancun or stay additional days for some beach activities.

Day 15. Fly back to country of origin