Posada del Cerro

Top choice in El Petén


This ecologically sound option blends into the jungle, close enough to Biotopo Cerro Cahuí to hear monkeys howl the evening in. Ten thoughtfully furnished rooms occupy stone-and-hardwood houses and solitary huts scattered over the hillside; one is open to the woods with its own lake-view deck. It also has an eight-bed hut and an apartment that sleeps four to five.

Herbs from the forest are stirred into local recipes in the neat, thatched-roof restaurant.