We set our alarms at 3.30am for 4.30 pick up from our hotel to see the sunrise at Tikal National Park and Archaeological Site. We had been told that this is the best time to go, as it is cooler and less crowded, which increases your chances of seeing the local wildlife. Last night we had realised that for the last few days we had been going through the wrong door to our hotel: instead of going through the customer entrance we had been going through the family e...

Our next stop on the trip was going to be Dangriga in Southern Belize, so that we could see the local celebrations for Garifuna Settlement Day. However, as it was a Public Holiday, we thought that a lot of the hotels would be booked up by locals, so we decided to go elsewhere. We discovered that it was really easy to cross the border into Guatemala from Belize, so we decided on here for our next stop. We were pretty excited about visiting another country, making ...