An Ancient Mayan Capital: Tikal

These days my favourite boardgame is "Tikal". Designed by M. Kiesling, W. Kramer, published by Ravensburger, Tikal is a strategy game that 2-4 people can play and it finishes around 90 minutes.

Imagine you're Indiana Jones: directing the excavation of an important Mayan site. But, there are others who want to steal away the treasure and fame for themselves! In the Tikal board game, you'll explore into the jungle, finding temples and treasure. You have to claim them for yourself and guard them well.

Tikal is a Mayan archaeological site in the Peten jungle of Guatemala.

Miguel Ángel Asturias, named Nobel Laureate in 1967, wrote "Only Guatemala is comparable to itself," describing it as "a land of natural dreamscapes...mysterious presences and absences." Tikal, the largest known Mayan city, is incomparable in the same way; its size imposing and intimidating, its setting lush and teeming with wildlife, and with a mysterious and overwhelming atmosphere best described in the writing of Asturias:

"The imagination reels. There are reliefs, pyramids, temples in the extinguished city. The damp murmur of the arroyos, voices, crepitations of the intertangling vines, the sound of flapping wings, trickle into the immense sea of silence. Everything palpitates, breathes, exhausting itself in green above the vast roof of Peten."

Miguel Ángel Asturias, The Mirror of Lida Sal: Tales Based on Mayan Myths & Guatemalan Legends, p. 13-14.

So here are a couple of Tikal links:
- Tikal; The place of remembered voices...
- Journey through Tikal...
- Tikal; Science Museum of Minesota
- Enjoyguatemala.com: Tikal
- An article and quick facts about Tikal

Andif you wanna learn more about the boardgame Tikal, check Rainydaygames.ca...

Posted by Fikirbaz at September 22, 2003 09:14 PM

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