On the agenda today, another ruin, Xunantunich. (We spent days trying to remember how to pronounce this!) In to town again, and straight to the bus station (I use the term loosely) and waited for a bus heading to Benque, the border town. Our first chicken bus experience, we survived! Got off at the hand cranked ferry that takes you across the Mopan river to the road which goes, you guessed it, uphill (for a mile!!!!) to the site. We were impressed yesterday and...

We settled in to our new lodgings on the farm, and then made the trek to San Ignacio, down some very steep hills and over the Hawksworth Bridge, which, modeled on the Brooklyn Bridge, is the only suspension bridge in the country. It is hard to describe the town. My first impression was of chaos, people bustling along, cars and jeeps coming from every direction, mulit-coloured buildings all crowded in on each other. It seemed to me disorganized and unattractive, b...