Flores, Tikal and Antigua

We arrived in Flores, Guatemala in the early evening after a day of travelling from Caye Caulker. We arranged to go on a sunrise tour to the Maya ruins at Tikal early the next morning (3:30am start so more like the middle of the night) so didn't do much that evening. Although it was called the Sunrise Tour, it was actually light when we arrived which is probably just as well otherwise we would have had to walk for 45 mins through the jungle in the dark. The benefit of being there so early is that you get to sit at the highest temple where you watch/hear the animals and birds in the rainforest waking up. We then walked around the other ruins (some of which we climbed up), got shown a tarantula and saw lots of monkey's swinging in the trees.

The next day we spent in Flores and went on a boat trip around the lake before getting a night bus to Antigua. Flores is a small island in the middle of a lake connected to the mainland by a causeway. They seem to get powercuts every couple of hours!

We had a few days in Antigua, a picturesque colonial town that is overlooked by a massive volcano. We went to the plaza, the market (where we stumbled across a game of football!) and spent time on the roof terrace at our hostel when the sun was out.
It turned out that one of Ellie's mates, Gareth, happened to be in Antigua at the same time as us so we met up with him, went out for dinner and had a few drinks.