Campamento El Chiclero
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Tikal and Uaxactun
Tikal
Guatemala time meant we left at 08:30 rather than 08:00. I had sat on the curb outside the office to wait and chatted to a German lass. She has two days left of her 4 week adventure. What a way to end it.
It was a mini bus and we picked up a few more people plus some guides. One spoke really good English and explained what to …
Uaxactún ruins
Uaxactun ruins
Well here I am in Uaxactun, I made it via the local bus service and will return tomorrow morning on the 06:00 service. I then hope to head to Yaxha ruins. If I can work out the bus service. Internet is hit and miss here but then they don't really have electricity, they put the generator on as necessary. I will do a bit of diary …
This Place Tikals Our Fancies
... rough gravel road over looking some steep cliffs, good fun. Next we arrived at some caves, we were armed with candles, and made our way inside. It was another cave where water flows through so we had to be careful with our candles. At some points we had to swim and then climb up rocks with one hand. We had this great guide who is a very little Guatemalan who would swim ahead then reappear out of nowhere. The best part was climbing up a waterfall by rope. We also reached a ...
Tikal
... to the destination. For example, on this journey we stopped off at a petrol station for 25 mins. We didn't get any petrol!! Nah that would have been silly! We just sat there while a few people got off to buy some food and not a lot else. Maybe the driver needed a long loo break or something, I don't know.
The next time the bus stopped was so that I could pay the 150q park entrance fee! Thats about £12 - £13 which I thought was quite a lot for ...
Ancient jungle city
... bites on foreheads, elbows, fingertips and any other part not coated in DEET and cant help but laugh as some boy with a poster of his girlfriend shouts "I love you!" in front of a temple as the bemused guide videos him.
Theres a small musuem with an amazing piece of bone carved in 3 parts with a graphic of the lord of the underworld rowing creatures to his realm...
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TravelPod Member ReviewsCampamento El Chiclero Peten
“Wonderful respite”
Reviewed Feb 1, 2013
Amazing place to stay, great food, and information about the area. Don't miss the museaum
This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.
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