Mittwoch, 29. Juli 2009
via flores and tikal and hopefully to Mexico
Just to put this right: Even though I was not able to talk much about the tubing last time, it was a great experience. It´s just always nice to see that nature will always have the upper hand on us... Crazy, crazy stuff in the currents.
BUT the safety guide on the trip made me realize one thing. If anyone and I mean anyone, will ever try again and test my knowledge of Astrology when I mention that I study Cosmology, I will have to kill that person. Sorry. But that´s how it is. The guide asked me questions about Astrology for 20 min and I could not convince her that I do actual science. Sad day.
On Monday, after the big rafting trip on Sunday and the trip to Semuc Champey on Saturday, I had an easy day. Lots of reading and hanging around in the morning and during the day. In the evening we took a trip to some caves, where during sunset thousands of bats would come out. It was really impressive to see all those bats fly towards you but then still find a way around you without killing you. After the tour I went out for dinner with a few peole I met and had a quite night,.
Tuesday moring I went on a bus to Flores at 8. Flores is a small island on a lake in the north of Guatemala. We arrived in Flores at about 4 in the evening. It´s a really nice place. The small island is all build up, but they have a large walkway all around the island on the lake shore with beautiful views. There are lots of nice restaurants and cafes and it just has a nice flair to it. I in fact arrived at the hostel at 4.05h in the afternoon ( which is 00.05 the next day in central europe) and so I missed my dad´s birthday by 5 minutes. Pitty. But is was still his birthday here and I managed to send him an sms during his birthday then...
Today (Wednesday) was an active day so far. I got up at 4.30h and left to go to Tikal at 5h in the morning. Tikal is said to be the capital of ancient Mayan civilisation. It´s a huge area in the middle of the forest with lots and lots of huge old Mayan temples. Very impressive stuff, seeing that they started building this town way around 700 BC. Old stuff. I walked around there for about 5 hours and then went back to Flores for some lunch and I´m now starting to sort out my trip for tomorrow. The plan is to get a bus to Mexico for tomorrow morning and then spend about a week there. The small things in the way of booking it are: No ATMs in Flores accept my bank card, so I dont have any Quetzales any more. I do have some dollars left, but the one I wanted to give then now had a tear in it, so they wont accept it. So I will now go back to the hostel and see if I still have a non-torn 50 dollar note and try again. Wish me luck :-)
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