Flores & Tikal

📌 A 12 hour long journey to get into Guatamala from Belize, however there were plenty of tourists with us on the ferry and shuttle so we were all in the same pain. The borders were slowwwww but we eventually got into Flores late in the evening.

📌 Flores was a small island consisting mainly of restaurants and hotels. The streets were colourful and it was nice to walk around the next morning. We were getting into Coffee producing territory now and that first morning was a good start, hopefully one of many delicious coffees whilst in this part of the world. We wandered around before settling for a beautiful brunch restaurant by the lake, serving a tasty central American style shakshuka.

📌 The reason for visiting Flores was Tikal, a large Mayan city deep within a national park. We opted for the afternoon/sunset tour and as we drove out we realised how hard it must have been to find these ruins, it was dense jungle for atleast 20-30 mins from the gate. The ruins were beautiful, it would have been incredible at its peak in 800 AD. The views of the jungle with the 40-50m high temples poking through was very peaceful and something very unique. An abundance of spider and howler monkeys filled the jungle air with their dinosaur like roars. We were also treated to the sounds of beautiful parrots, sightings of toucans and falcons. As we walked back in the dark we spotted a few tarantulas, one being on the path appearing out of nowhere! Guatamala was off to a great start 😍Read more