Rio Dulce Got a bus at 8.30am from Santa Elena to Rio Dulce. Lonely Planet said journey would take 4.5 hours; however 3 hours into the journey our destination was announced so we scrambled off the bus in a mad panic. The first hotel we went to was awful so we went to see another one which turned out to be even worse and more expensive. We saw an advertisement for a hotel that was only accessible by boat and completely surrounded by inhospitable jungle and river, ...

Flores 2 We returned to Flores after visiting Tikal in order to change to a connecting bus, which neccesitated us having to spend another night here. We went out for dinner and Lisa ordered, after confirming with the waitress that her meal didn´t have meat in it because she was a vegetarian. However, when the meal arrived there was a huge piece of steak on it (which Charlie gobbled). What makes it funnier is that the meal was under the vegetarian section o...

An Encounter With Wildlife We arrived by tourist bus into Tikal National Park on the 9th December.  On this bus journey we stared out at a Guatemalan Military base and saw some curious activity.  We think it was training but instead of using colleagues as enemy, to train against, they were using GOATS!  A curious way for the military to act and can only lead to one conclusion - A war is imminant between Guatemala and the go...

Flores 1 Crossed the Guatamala border with relative ease - no horrible questions to answer like in Belize. A bit scared at first in Guatemala because of all the horror stories we had heard, but in fact it turned out to be OK. Jumped into a minibus that was going to our desitnation, Flores. It filled up quickly to maximum capacity, however this didn´t seem to stop the driver encouraging more and more people to cram in. It was like a world record attempt! Th...