5 days trekking past a couple of sets of ruins deep in the forests of El Peten in Guatemala. Definently a huge highlight over wandering round the tourist jungles of the other Mayan ruins and El Mirador is the grandest also. Although it is mostly still covered in jungle and is a lot of unrestored piles of rubble!
A pyramid
An unrestored pile of stones
The Freeze
Tarzan
Hard to get enough of these sunsets. After walking all day in the forests u get to climb a pyramid for the first views of the day.
Animals, good mosaic hey.
I´m gunna trash Los Amigos Hostel, dont do it through them they have a virtual monopoly on the trek, overcharge and dont do a good job compared to all other guided treks Ive done in Latin America. 2 other groups had the same opinion. Great hostel but no good for El Mirador. There are other operators around Flores, I wish I could name them!
Also its not really that hard a trek out of the wet. You can do it urself if u got a tent and some trekkin experience. Just need to get water off the rangers at the stops.
Belize
You better Belize it da scene ere is clean mon. I cant keep that up, but man what a cool place. Perfect temperature, crystal clear water, hammocks, the slowest pace of life I ever seen, and all the super friendly locals that keep it that way. Dancing in the sand to the crazy Punta rock, gunga sold even in restaurants, and English, they speak English!!, made this a nice break from Latin America.
Paradise, I coulda stayed for a while.
