Peten Esplendido Flores

... to Flores no-stopping bus was not coming. An agent selling the tickets for the bus said that it had been stopped coming in at the Belizean/Guatemala border in Benque due to some beaurocracy that has been going on for months, blah blah blah - I should imagine this is pretty standard for Central America. There were nine of us travelling together so we had to take what the locals use and they're Bluebird buses, definitely no air ...

... info as to routes, times, costs, etc and I have had so much conflicting info, I have to do the Latin American thing &amp; leave it in the lap of the gods!<br><br>Best insurance would have been to take Oscar, from the agency that sold me the ticket, along as luggage carrier - never expected to find a cutie apply for the job so early into my trip!<br> <br>

Pretty sure that one speed bump I hit in the dark that made the truck and trailer fly shook stuff down too. .<br>I thought for sure I'd killed the girls<br>we hit so hard. Narrow mountain road close to Papantla and we couldn't<br>even stop and check them for almost 10 miles. The trailer literally<br ...

... without checking. <br><br> All I can say about Belize is what I saw on my four hour bus ride bypassing the country. People all looked different, like they were from all over the world, and even though we were on an inland highway, the country had a beach vibe. I seriously considered staying a while in the Belize beaches, which are meant to be amazing, but I figured I couldn&#8217;t spend all my time going ...

... latest in backpacker fashion. <br><br>Today's adventure was Tikal National Park which is actually pretty amazing even in the off and on rain. Before I tell you about it, I do have one observation I have made traveling to ancient sites around the world...Tikal, Angkor Wat, Petra, Macon, Valdosta. Why is it that the finest archaeological sites in the world are located in tropical steambaths. Why couldn't the Vikings or the First Nation people in ...

... they think there used to be 365 of them, though many buildings here are not fully restored. It was a real ****** that many were closed off completely & none was available to climb up to get a good view of the site - not impressed. Also many of the best carvings & relics in the museum which was closed, apparently for maintenance, even though they'd had the last 2 weeks to do it as the museum had been closed - gotta love Mexico!

Decidemment cette ville n a AUCUN charme! Apres 6h dans un bus inconfortable et des millions de dos d anes, nous sommes atterit dans une ville tristounette ou nous attend notre premiere pluie depuis notre arrivee au Mexique. Nous esperons que la visite de la pyramide d El Tajin en vaut le coup (etape choisie par Max...). Finalement nous sommes alles camper sur le site d'El Tajin pour assister a un festival tres sympathique et un son et ...

... Another fairly lazy day, Mike was busy fixing the water heater whilst I did my cross stitch. A boring day did not do anything. On the moped to the town of Papantla, this is the home town of the Voladores, that is the people who do the flying. It is also where the descendents of the Totanics still live. We were hoping to catch one of their celebrations which we were told would be today, as it turned out it was yesterday! Still we managed to see some of ...

... 42 kr for et værelse, med bad, altan og udsigt over Peten søen. Og hver dag var der koncert.! - I hundredvis af sortklædte, virtuose stemmer underholdt hver morgen ved fire- femtiden. Sangerne holdt til lige bag ved Doña Goya i nogle store appelsintræer Det lignede stære, men de var større og underholdningen havde en noget mere eksotisk tone.

... and posted her card when I got to The States so her actual Birthday card was late once again! It was sad saying good-bye to Lisa as we had got on well and been out a few times, got drunk together and ...