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Video Footage: Carmelita In El Peten: A Village Surrounded By Rainforests
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Drone view: Stock footage filmed from a drone of The town of Carmelita is small and basic – it’s little more than group of houses and a few simple restaurants and stores. Trekking tours to the Mayan site of El Mirador begin here. The town has a small visitor center and a gift shop that sells maps and souvenirs. The hike to El Mirador usually takes about five days. The hike in can be grueling and involve slogging through deep mud. Mules carry supplies. It’s also possible to ride horses, which is an especially good idea during the wet season. Trekking during the dry season months of February, March and April is usually easiest. Carmelita was originally an Airport for giant chewing-gum and lodging companies in between the decades of 1950 to 1980, and the airstrip was nothing more than a leveled-area of the ground of the area. Serving Carmelita, a small community in the Maya Biosphere Reserve of Guatemala. A section of the runway also serves as a street in the village, but the airstrip itself was decommissioned some years ago, mainly because of the trees that have grown across it, and that are protected by conservation laws. Now, Carmelita is a town surrounded by nature and wildlife, and it thrives because of its tourism industry, specially is Maya-trek tour of the jungle to the ancient Maya city of El Mirador, and its closeness to Mirador-Rio Azul National Park, and the sustainable extraction of natural resources from the rainforest around it.
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