Blogger Doug Chichen Itza - is it worthy enough to be included on the list of the new 7 wonders? That{s what we were asked to vote for as we came to the main entrance of Chichen Itza. If you are interested in voting for the new wonders check out the link below. Interestingly, the Sydney Opera House is in there with the Great Wall of China. Hmmmm...... www.new7wonders.com/ Anyway, if we thought Tullum was full of tourists, well Chichen was drowning in them. This (along with Tullum) is the main site closest to the tourist meccas of Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tullum. Bus after bus after bus arrives to deliver tourists for the day trip. They get a guide all 30 odd per bus and get a quick one hour tour before hitting ... read more

Blogger Bec There are many ways a girl can get into her wedding dress: dieting, exercising, fasting, detoxing, pills, having a tube stuck up your bum, mud or seaweed wraps... OR... you could do what I did and get pandemonium inducing, injection requiring, sheet changing gastritis!! Blogger Doug We spent today pooing instead of weeing as Bec so aptly put it. A product of the drugs killing off the infection I suspect. Ben and Phil went off to Palenque during the day whilst we watched a full cycle of programs on Warner Channel cable TV. At around 4:30pm, Ben returned to tell us that, if we were up for it, we were having a guided tour of the Palenque ruins after hours with the head archaeologist of the site. Turns out he was Bens lecturer ... read more

Blogger Doug Today we travelled to Chichicastenango to visit the largest market in Central America. It was an amazing market with lots of locals from all around the surrounding villages carting the wears up to the market place the night before ready to start selling early. It was interesting to see the variety in the fabrics the locals were selling. The varied in colour and embroidery depending on the village. We wanted to buy everything but just couldn´t afford and carry it all with us. We all voted no more markets as the number of times we said ¨No, gracios¨was ridiculous!! ... read more

Blogger Bec That night, we endured an overnight bus to Antigua, via Guatamala City- 13 hours, yuk! STill, all our discomfort was forgotten as we pulled into Antigua, an impossibly perfect city which is actually a World Heritage Site - the entire city!! All the streets are cobbled, each building a different colour render, all facades kept in the original style as set out by the Spanish conquerers. It was absolutely spectacular! Antigua is best known for being the hub for Spanish schools popular with tourists as well as home to 5 of Guatamalas most well known volcanos - 2 of which are still active. We were given a great walking tour of the city which took in all the major sites - mostly Catholic churches full of frightening iconography meant to intimidate and keep ... read more

Blogger Bec Well here we are in the wonderful Caye Caulker, an island off Belize (Check out our map if you don't know where we are!!). We are now travelling with our tour group, having come from Cancun in Mexico down into Belize. We caught the sea taxi out to Caye Caulker yesterday afternoon and have spent today snorkelling in the reef about ten minutes boat ride out from our hotel on the beach. First stop was Ray Alley where up to 15 sting rays were swimming around us in maybe 6 feet of water. The colour was immaculate. The guide was great but I wasn't too keen on how they feed the rays in order for them to stay around. He was also touching them and I just find that contradictorary to the whole ... read more