Our trip to Tikal
Tikal was absolutely amazing. I’d say more, but I think I want to get these pictures uploaded while I have the chance…
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- a creative solution we found along the way
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- lunch was at a restaurant on the Rio Dulce...
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- ...that had a turtle pond!
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- our "eco-hotel" in the jungle
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- i wanted to swim in the lagoon...
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- ...but it's good that i didn't
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- Stacey loves monkeys!
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- but she wasn't allowed to feed them
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- the first temple was rather small
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- but this one wasn't!
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- same temple from the front (from atop another temple)
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- stacey took my picture...
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- ...and i took hers
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- i tried not to keep Stacey waiting
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- first view of temple iv - we climbed it last
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- this temple had steep "stairs"
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- she made it to the top!
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- see?
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- then we traded places
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- i came down rather quickly
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- "the lost world" - oldest Mayan ruins found so far
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- we made it to the top of temple iv!
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- what an amazing view!
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- stacey's close monkey encounter
OK, that last one deserves an explanation! That’s the same monkey that we took Stacey’s picture with the day before… but this day, when we took it’s picture on the way to breakfast, it must have been in a different mood! All of a sudden, it was coming after me… and then changed direction and went after Stacey! I didn’t know until I heard her screaming (we had run in opposite directions), and by the time I got to her, the situation was already under control. It didn’t do anything but touch her leg, but it was enough to get our adrenaline pumping that morning! Just in time for our long bus ride to Quirigua and then on to Antigua! Those pics will be in the next post…
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