Flores - Tikal - Belize

Flores was great wee place, very pretty. Went out on a canoe round the lake so that Jenny could look for animals. Didn't find anything other than coots and a heron. Jenny convinced herself that a coconut was a turtle and got very excited about a black bag as well thinking it was a crocodile. Was good fun though.

Tikal

Went to Tikal on 19th Feburary, another Mayan ruins site. Was absolutely amazing. I'm not that interested in ruins but this place was incredible. It's a huge national park deep in the guatemalan jungle. We went at about 9.30 in the morning and didn't leave til 4pm. The temples are all massive and overgrown with the jungle. To get between them we would sometimes have to walk for 20-30 mins through the jungle, and a lot of the time we didn't see anybody else. Saw lots of widlife which kept Jenny happy - spider monkeys, strange turkey-like things, a fox-type creature, and lots of big fat americans being herded about the place. Was really impressed with the place as a whole though. You could climb to the top of most of the temples and I managed up one of them, Jenny went up two. The one that I didn't go up was an absolute joke, there were rickety wooden ladders that you had to climb up and you had to come back down backwards they were so steep.'

Belize Caye Caulker

We travelled to Belize yesterday. Another long bus ride in an ''air conditioned 1st Class bus''. Got to Belize city, spent about 15 minutes there as it seemed a bit of a dump - on the way in on the bus we went past a rubbish tip that absolutely stank and drove through the middle of a massive graveyard. We got straight on a water taxi and are on a little island called Caye Caulkere, in the carribean. Very Very nice. Probably going to go snorkelling on the reef just off the coast tomorrow. Weather is beautiful, palm trees and pelicans flying about, and drinking plenty of the local rum. All good.