Yaxha Sunset Tour Private - All Inclusive

Yaxha is the third largest ruin in Guatemala, with only Tikal and El Mirador being larger.The centre of the city consisted of a number of plazas and architectural groups, with outlying groups and the lake shore linked by causeways.

The main architectural groups are the Maler Group to the north, linked to the central area by the blom causeway, the South Acropolis, the West Group, the Northeast Acropolis, the East Acropolis and a number of plazas and lesser groups make up the site core.

The city was linked to the shore of Lake Yaxha by the lake causeway. Plaza A is a twin pyramid complex. Ten main communication routes have been identified in the city, with the four principal routes having been classified as causeways by archaeologists, with the remainder classed as "vias". Yaxha was more densely occupied than most other Maya cities.

The site has more than 500 structures, including about 40 stelae, 13 Altars, 9 temple pyramids, 2 Mesoamerican ballcourts, and a network of sacbeob (causeways) that connect the central, northern, and eastern, and the Lake causeway that was the main entrance in the past.

The top of Temple 216 (restored) provides a view of the two lakes on one side and the jungle and the stepped-pyramids on the other.

Yaxha possesses one of very few twin pyramid complexes outside of Tikal, the fact that the site holds a twin-pyramid complex provides a visible insight into the political alliances that eventually influenced the architectural style of the city at its peak, although it appears that the complex at Yaxha was unfinished.