Adventures of My Peace: 1 October 2011 Trip To Tikal Mayan Ruins

1 October 2011 – rose and Jessi decided to take a road trip on the bus to the Mayan ruins at Tikal, said to be the capital of the Mayan civilization. It was a 5 hour bus ride north; they took the regular bus without air conditioning, like most of the buses here with the exception of the “Express Bus” it was full and people had to stand in the aisles until someone got off and you were lucky enough to get a seat. When the got to El Remate the changed to a collectivia (a local van) for the final ride to their hotel.

The next morning they got up with the sun for their trek to the ruins. After a 20 minute walk through the rain forest they arrived at Temple VI. During their walk they encountered a grey fox, spider monkeys, several bird spices, and well as many insects and mosquitoes. They had been forewarned to wear long sleeves and long pants as well as to cover themselves with plenty of mosquito repellant.

After Temple VI they took the trail to Temple I “o Gran Jaguar”, from the pictures it looked like the temple that they filmed the movie “Apocalypto” . According to Rose and Jessi these are the nicest and best restored ruins that we have seen on the whole trip. Unlike the other ruins we have been at you are able to go inside the rooms, tunnels, and pyramids.

They stayed most of the day at Tikal and returned to their hotel for dinner. The next morning they got up, caught the collectivia from the hotel to El Remate where this time they caught the “Express Bus”, which is air conditioned complete with a restroom and a guaranteed seat.

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