Today we were both fully recovered (although I now have a cold coming...damn it!) so we headed up to Tikal, which we have both really been looking forward to and it didn´t disappoint. We had to get up at the fabulously antisocial time of 4am to get our bus, because the best time to go is early in the morning to see all the animals and not have as many people there...not many people are stupid enough to get up at that time to climb some ruins! We arrived lookin...

As soon as Ian recovered from his illness, I got the same thing! Unfortunately we had to leave our hotel in Livingston as they were fully booked. We made a rather horrible boat journey to Rio Dulce where I decided that I couldn´t continue on to Flores so went to the 1st hostel that we could get to where I clambered into bed. It turned out that I probably would have been better to head onto to Tikal as there was a club across the river (20 minute walk across a br...

On the 11th we left Finca Tatin and made the short boat ride to Livingston though if you saw us when we arrived you would have thought we had swam there as it rained the whole way and the plastic sheets to cover us only gathered the puddles before tipping them down the back of our trousers. Livingston is a small fishing town with a very strong Caribbean feel but to be honest I was more impressed by the fact that they had two live crocodiles in a pool in the play...

Today we all headed up to the local caves known as the Tiger´s cave because it use to be a popular haunt for jaguars (close but not quite). It was quite a trek and Suzy still hasn´t learnt that it is a bad idea to wear sandals in the jungle and she was bitten by ´the mother of all ants´ ´who was ´at least a foot long´. After 40min through the jungle we agreed that it felt about the same as the sauna the night before by the time we arrived at the cave, whic...

After enjoying breakfast with a cat on my lap the whole time we headed off in some kayaks to take a bit of a gander round the local area (the only way to get around as there are no roads) with Nate, Kelsey, Gisela and Richard. It was pretty hot so it didn´t take long before we decided to stop and take a dip in the river, which was the perfect temperature. Though my watch has now become fish food. 20min downstream we stopped at the hot springs which you smell be...