Flores and Tikal

FLORES & TIKAL

This overnight bus trip from Antigua was pretty hard work but I managed to get some sleep and a few hours laying horizontal in Flores was good for getting up and ready to tackle the amazing Mayan ruins at Tikal. You can get a shuttle bus from Flores that takes an hour and 5 of us decided to take a guide for $12 each and “Joe” proved to be a little gem with just enough English to get us around all the highpoints of this amazing place. I can die happy knowing I have visited one of the very special sites of mankind. Its one of those places where you say “yeah that’s pretty amazing” and then you go onto something else that is even better. I was truly surprised by the overall size and area of these ruins that was the centre of Mayan culture and had 150,000 people living there in its prime.

Flores itself is built on a small island and well worth a day on its own, so it got one from me before moving on to Rio Dulce.