Today was a horribly early start with us being up at 5:30am for our taxi to take us to Tikal. We arrived at about 8am for some grub & wandered past the crocodile pool into the park. We decided against a guide (to save pennies) & just used the reasonably comprehensive info in the Lonely Planet. A number of the temples & pyramids hadn't been excavated yet so were just rubble buried under earth & trees. However others had been uncovered & re-built & were brilliant examples of Mayan architecture. We climbed one of them, almost killing ourselves in the heat, for a view across the whole site. The temples here were mostly tiered pyramids with stairs up their fronts (& sides on some of them), with a few having sacrificial altar at their peaks. Whilst walking around we also saw monkeys & other wildlife before getting back to our taxi driver 3 hours later. He then drove us onto our hostel (the Eco-Lodge) in Yaxha. We were going to head off to the temples in the Yaxha national park, but decided that as our place was so chilled & by a lake, that we'd relax there for the afternoon. So I fell asleep in the hammock!!! We watched the sunset over the lake as the frogs, crickets & howler monkeys gave us their evening song. The place was miles from anywhere so we ate there, relaxing & playing games for the evening, while being eaten alive by the wildlife! (The one thing that I've been a little paranoid about here, is that as we're in a rainforest, scorpions are present. So as other people had told us stories about finding them in their clothes, etc. we're checking everything before we put it on!).