So time to rock on to Guatemala! Everyone ive met raves about this country, so I bought my lonely planet and am ready for here! We started in Flores, a lovely little Island connected to Santa Elena. We tried the Guatemalan street food and I have to say beats Mexican food!! Then it was off to Tikal, Mayan ruins in the jungle. We spent our first night in the jungle during sunset, we saw toucans, howler monkeys, bats, many different birds, which I cannot name. It was beautiful until the sun went down and the mosquitoes ate us alive!! Yes I have been eaten from head to toe and its always great to know there is malaria in a region after visiting the jungle!! But apparently not for 2 years, shame my jungle bug spray burst
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