Tikal

Tikal was just awesome. It´s basically a fairly large Mayan site in the jungle about an hour and half north east of Flores. There´s about half a dozen large temples as well as lots of other ruined buildings. The jungle setting makes it even more spectacular. As it is the low season there wasn´t many tourists and we didn´t see anyone for ages as we trekked along the jungle paths between sites. We saw a couple of coatimundes (not really sure what these are, but see the picture) and lots of monkeys hanging and chattering in the trees. We also saw lots of colourful birds including woodpeckers and nesting parrots (fortunately no spiders, snakes, crocodiles or jaguars!) All in all it was a magical experience and we thoroughly enjoyed it. Belize tomorrow...