Okay, now we are totally ruined out for a while! But we are glad we
saved the best til last...well, until we see the next set
of ruins...they are bloody everywhere over here!! Tikal was by far
the most amazing. We thought Palenque was like a lost city...this
still is
a lost city! Only 20% has been excavated...and building structures were
literally still under mountains of dirt with tree roots wrapped around
them. We had heard that someone got lost a couple of years ago and was
found 5 days later and 80km away. So we decided that getting a guide
for Tikal might be a wise move. We were really grateful that we
did so because haveing local knowledge and stories really helped to
increase our appreciation of ruins.
We also hung out with a English couple and it was quite refreshing to
hear phrases like "it was pants", "Wicked!" and "that's mental".
