SAN IGNACIO - Since we had a rental car we decided to use it... and drive to Tikal!  What the heck right?  I told everybody that the roads were 'bad, real bad' in Guatemala.  They didn't really believe me at first, but as you can see from Jim's face, they were really bad.  The first 25 km or so was dirt/mud and had potholes big enough to hide a volkswagen - of which we hit our share.  We also hit a couple of suprise speed bumps too which was fun because every time it happened the girls screamed in the back.  Ok, well mostly Leigh screamed.  But you know how it goes... one person screams, which scares the crap out of everybody else and they all scream too.



The trip was awesome.  This is one of my favorite shots of the girls, just hanging out behind Temple II.  Thanks to Kath for some of these great photos!  Actually, check out her entire album by clicking here.  She really did a very good job of photographing their entire stay with us and it's definitely worth a look.




Here's one of Jim and I doing the same...



Jim and Kath are on top of the world here... somewhere in the Mundo Perdido, or 'lost world'.  It was a long way up a lot of very tall stairs but they made it, and are apparently very pleased with themselves



These are the 'stairs' we climbed up to get to the top of Temple IV... some of the best views in Tikal can be gotten from up there.



The following pictures were actually taken not in Tikal but in Xunantunich, ruins on the border of Belize and Guatemala that we stumbled upon the following day...  Jim can't believe he's the first person to have discovered this place.



I tried to give some idea of the scale and height of these structures, but I'm not sure it really comes through...

Here is the gratuitous nasty indigenous spider photo.  The thing was so beautiful I just had to take a picture of it.  I'd never seen one so colorful.

 

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