After lounging at Caye Caulker for a while we decided to be active and head inland to San Ignacio to do some crazy ¨ATM¨ tour that neither of us knew much about, but were told by his friend that we had to do it. Peer pressure. So we signed up for the ¨Actun Tunichil Muknil¨ tour. It was the craziest, funnest thing ever.
We hiked into the jungle and crossed a river 3 times until we got to a giant cave where we donned our helments with head lamps and jumped in the river and swam into the cave. I went to the Lewis and Clark Caverns in Montana when I was little, and it was like that times 1000. I think I looked back at Nate as we were swimming in the dark water and holding onto the wall of the cave and said ¨this is insane¨ about 20 times. We swam-waded-climbed in the cave for about 2 miles until we got to our destination: a huge room where the Mayas had cermonies with sacrifices. There were tons of skeletons and pottery in their original place since thousands of years ago. So crazy. It was like Indiana Jones-The Goonies-a ride at Disneyland-a bad horror movie. It was the coolest thing I have done and Im so happy that we got our lazy asses off the beach to do the tour ;)
After the crazy cave adventure, we wanted more beach so we took a bus (an old American schoolbus) to Placencia, a cute village with a long white sand beach and more hammocks. We woke up one night to crazy wind and rain and were once again convinced a hurricane was coming but in the morning it was nice and sunny again. When we were leaving today the guy at the airport said that a tropical storm was coming that might turn into a hurricane. Scary.
Today we flew back to Belize city (a gorgeous plane ride) and said goodbye after a great ¨trial honeymoon¨ :)
I then set out on my long journey to get a taxi to take a bus to take a taxi to the border to take a taxi to the bus stop to get to Flores, Guatemala, where I am right now. So tired. But I LOVE Guatemala so far.
Tomorrow I fly to Guatemala City and then head to the city of Antigua where I´ll be taking Spanish classes and volunteering. So excited!
Here are pics of Placencia and the crazy cave.
3 comments:
no words can describe how awesome i think it is that you're "out there doing it!" I hope you know how envious (in a good way) i am of you! seriously i miss you and your laugh and your great big yanna smile, thanks for posting pics!
damn you.
love,
aylin
hey lady!
I love this post! This trip sounds absolutely incredible and now I can't wait to book mine to the south side! Thanks for all the inspiration. You are so great to be doing what you're doing. Love and miss you, janna. -A
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