The view from Temple IV's rooftop — roof combs of Temples I and II rising through the Petén canopy as morning mist rolls across the lowlands. This is what you came for, and it's worth the 4 a.m. wake-up. Everything else at Tikal makes more sense once you've seen it from up here.
© Arian Zwegers from Brussels, Belgium, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons