So, the main reason for this blog is so that we can share our trip with people (assuming there is an audience......) and document our travels so we can read back over what we wrote and jog our some what middle aged brains when we get home! That in mind this entry is a summary of all we have done so far, just so I don't forget, as well as an update from today.
I think it's Tuesday the 8th today, I'm slightly out of sync with days and dates, and so far we have taken in Cancun, Isla Mujeres, Chitchen-Itza, Tulum, Chetamul, Caye Caulker and San Ignacio via Belize City.
Outside of the temples Caye Caulker has been an amazing highlight. I really do think I have fallen in love with the place. One day I will have to get back to Belize and dive the Blue hole, as well as visiting a bit more of the south coast, we'd have loved to have done that this time but with such a tight timeline and so many countries to see, it just hasn't been feasible!
We went out to Xunantinich today (I think that is how it's spelt, but challenge anyone out there to pronounce it right first time), which was great. More Mayan piles of rubble C :-) We even got to see a troupe of Howler Monkey's in the wild and alledgedly the site is the only location in the world, where Howler Monkeys and Spider Monkeys live in harmony with one another. One of the Howler monkey troupes has even adopted a young male Spider monkey, which we are told is unheard of. Are there any zoologists out there who know whether this is indeed true?!!
The bus trip back from the site was interesting, we had the pleasure of sitting with the local drunk in a bus shelter. He had been drinking overproof white rum all morning and as his first language was spanish all he really said to us was thank you very much and kept shaking our hands, priceless! His drinking mate turned up just as we got on the bus, so I think it was an afternoon full of 'red cap overproof rum' on the agenda too.....rock on the old Guatemalan at the bus stop :-)
Malc looks bored out of his brain waiting for me to finish this update, so I'll sign off now. We're off to spend the rest of our afternoon planning the rest of our trip out, so that we know we've got enough days to fit everything we want to do in and fight about what we don't do if we haven't! The place we are staying is fantastic, it's a small guest house call J&R's and is owned by a 75 year old couple called John and Rosa, they are so friendly and welcoming it's brilliant. I quite enjoyed my first cup of coffee in a week this morning too!
Off over the Belize/Guatemala border tomorrow and then onto Tikal. I'm sure Mr Squirrel and Miss Toad will have many stories to tell after that, so the next update might well be handed back over to them.
A few photos below for those of you who don't want to read and just want to look at the pictures!!! ;-)
Jesus Christ Lizard
Sunset in Caye Caulker
Made in Middlesborough (this ones for Grandad)
Howler Monkey!
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