Well we have made it to Tikal the amazing Mayan Ruins!
Flores is the little town near Tikañ where you stay to get to Tikal Mayan Ruins some 2 hours away.
Flores is a nice little town and we enjoyed our time there. They even bizarrely have a Burger King which came in very handy when we had run out of money and needed to use James credit card to eat!
Tikal is a stunning place. Mayan ruins set in the middle of the Guatamalan jungle. the hefty entrance charge has recently been increased from 50 limpiar to 150 thanks to the new government. Still it was so quiet with hardly any tourist it was like we had the place to ourselves which only helped to make the experience even better. Check out the photos on the top left.
Stayed a nice place near the ruins where we camped for only 70 limpars which was strangely cheaper than the municipal camping and had far more facilities such as decent tolets etc. Very important!
It was toasting hot in Tikal though and it had apparently reached 40C and we felt it!
That night Mariana woke me up to tell me what was that. I said it was nothing and to go back to sleep. She was convinced it was an earthquake. Next day strangely enough another person thought she had felt the earth quake and sure enough on return to Flores we read the news paper that said there had been an earthquake in Honduras about 200km away which was about 7 on the Ritcher scale!
Next were off to Palenque in Mexico via Frontier Corozal, we're not sure how easy it will be or how long it will take but that is part of our ongoing adventure!
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