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Published: January 23rd 2008
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Tikal Ruins
Temple 1 and Grand Plaza We have packed lots into the last 2 days! Our overnight bus from Antigua via Guatemala city to Flores was uneventful - due to the long duration (9 hours) we opted for the luxury class (not sure we would survive an overnight chicken bus!) which was surprisingly fairly classy - reclining seats, snacks and drinks like on an aeroplane... Arrived at Flores - a little island in Northern Guatemala in a Jungle area - at the unearthly hour of 5.30 am but found a pleasant cafe open (!) for breakfast so we could wait for sunrise before finding somewhere to stay. Lovely hotel with lake views, rooftop terrace and hammocks for only 6 quid! Bargain. It is even supposed to have hot water....
We found some cool limestone caves nearby yesterday and declined a guide (we arrived before they even officially opened at 8am) but took a torch and went to explore - pretty exciting crawling through tunnels and around the several cave chambers without anyone to tell us where the exit was! There was the odd light bulb to help guide us tough. Next we explored Flores, a funky little island, Santa Helena (mainland) and Darryl led a wild goose
Admiring the View
Temple 3 and the Jungle chase looking for the bus station to book tickets for our onward journeys....
Today we went to Tikal, an amazing ancient Mayan city - the oldest we have been to so far. Bulidings from 200 AD onwards, it was pretty impressive. All green and very humid. We have even experienced our first rain since we left home, but that is jungle for you! We must have walked about 5 miles around all the temples, through the trees and up some pretty precarious vertical ladder type things up to the top of temples. Amazing views.
This afternoon we went on another wild goose chase to find Kayaks - we found some without oars, some rotten ones, some locked without a key (lost) and some owned by locals and not for rent... over 1 hour, at least a few miles walking and one blister later (Penny) we found some just in time for a sunset kayak lake tour before our evening coctails (for 50p). This is the life......
Tomorrow we head to Belize.....
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Partha
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The odd mouse...
Man...thats an odd mouse you keep in your desk at work....one of your patients had a very bemused look when I opened the top drawer...and out popped the mouse with the jangly tits!!! Nice one,Daz!!