Ruined for Ruins on the Maya Road
March 1st 2008 There's something about getting up ridiculously early in the morning that adds to the atmosphere of a day's outing. So I resisted the urge to break my alarm clock when it went off at 3.15am, telling me it was time to get downstairs and wait for the bus for the "sunrise tour" of Tikal, one of the greatest sets of Mayan ruins set in dense Guatemalan jungle. An hour's bus ride and a half hour walk
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