We have booked a room for a couple of nights at the Tikal Inn Hotel. This is inside the national park and a few minutes walk from the entrance to Tikal ruins.  Our room is in the garden a few minutes walk from the main building and we see monkeys above us as we walk to and fro. On  the  afternoon of arrival we have a  quick look around the nearer of the temples and there are only one or two other tourists.
Next morning, we head out early after  breakfast to visit the remote end of the complex of ruins.
We walked between the various ruins under the cool canopy of the jungle and although there were two or three groups of tourists later in the morning,  by mid day we seemed to have the ruins almost to ourselves again.

Tikal dates back as far as 400 BC, and grew into one of the largest and most powerful of the Mayan cities. It remained prosperous until the  decline of Mayan civilization  in around 900 AD.
It was eventually abandoned completely and consumed by the jungle until the mid 1800s when archaeologists  started to peel back the jungle. Many beautiful buildings have been uncovered, some of them partially restored and many more wait to be discovered. The site extends to more than 1 km across and there is a network of paths weaving through the jungle  to link the various old buildings. The site of  buildings older than 1000 years  poking through the canopy is quite amazing. You can climb to the top of a few of them and get panoramic views above the tree tops. After 7 hours wandering slowly from ruin to ruin with lots of stops in the shade we head back to our hotel to chill by the pool and await the switch on of the electricity at 6 pm!! Electricity is not 24 hours a day here...