We rose before dawn today for a sunrise tour of Tikal. The organized tours are the only way to get into the park for the sunrise - it is closed to all other visitors. We and several other tour groups climbed up to the top of Templo IV for some great views. After the sunrise, […]
Archive for May, 2007
We hitched a morning ride over the Guatemalan border to Tikal with Mayawalk, the same outfit that took us to the ATM. We got into Tikal early enough that we were able to spend several hours exploring the park before dark (we had originally expected that we wouldn’t enter the park until tomorrow). We’ve also […]
We took a bus from Belize City to San Ignacio, a small town near the Guatemalan border and a hub for adventure activities like caving, tubing, and rainforest canopy tours. We made the trek here mostly to check out Actun Tunichil Muknal, or “The Cave of the Stone Sepulchre,” which we’d heard was the must-see […]
I saw this banner in Belize City. I don’t know who the message is intended for (and I know nothing about Belizean politics), but it might not hurt if a neighbor to their north got a similar message…
We had been told that you could just roll into San Pedro and easily find a spot on a snorkeling boat for the next day, and that was true. The hostess at our hotel, Ruby’s, made a quick phone call last night and got us on a boat trip to the Hol Chan Marine Reserve […]
We got into Belize City yesterday afternoon and were able to catch the last water taxi from town out to San Pedro, on Ambergris Caye. Supposedly Ambergris is the “upscale” caye; we likely won’t make it to Caulker, so I can’t make any comparisons, but San Pedro feels sufficiently backpacker-friendly to me. There are some fancy resorts further […]
Kenny and I were expecting to make our Belize/Guatemala trip a fly-by-the-seat-of-our-pants kind of deal: we figured we wouldn’t really book hotels, and would only chart out a loose itinerary.
But I started reading about Tikal, and how it would be nice to have a hotel near the ruins rather than staying in Flores so that […]
