We were up at 2am this morning when the thunder (& lightning) woke us up, shaking our room. Luckily, the storm passed the island by & headed inland. However it did hit Roatan, where we were 2 weeks ago. So yet again, we leave a place & something happens to it (ie. Chile - Volcano erupted; Bolivia - worst snow storm in 20 years!) Countries are gonna start not letting us in seeing our wake of destruction we're leaving!! Anyway, after not sleeping so wel...

I nipped out for some fruit salads while Rach did breakfast for us. As we'd not done too much yesterday, we thought we'd go for a ride around the island today. However, our place just seems to bring out the lazy b****** in you, as we didn't manage to get going until after our fruit filled lunch. First off we rode to the north of the island, where we found the main 'beach' & bar that everyone goes to during the day. This was on the 'split', which was where the...

We couldn't stay in our place again as it was far too expensive, so we set off to find ourselves somewhere else to stay. After trying about 10 places we decided on one & started heading back. However on the walk back, we found a stunning little place with just 3 cabanas, which not surprisingly, Rach fell in love with. It was £28 a night, but the room was spotless with a bathroom, dining area, fridge, microwave, tv, AC, 2 beds, with chairs & a hammock on ...

We set off to Yaxha National Park at about 9am, just after breakfast. We'd heard it was only 15mins walk away, but how wrong we were!! 50mins later up & down gravel roads in the searing morning heat, we arrived at the site, dripping! The first temple was covered with tourists, but we climbed it for the impressive view of the surrounding lake. Following this, the next few were still unexcavated, as were more than 50% of them & we began to wonder why the pl...

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-buil...