'Ruin'ing my Holidays

Despite how expensive and out of the way Tikal is, The Mother of Mayan Ruins here is very magical. Yesturday, Jeff, myself and a Canadian couple had a 3 and a half hour tour of the Ruins, which is near mandatory if you want to understand what all the rocks mean. I recommend putting it on your To See list if you ever get that chance to visit Guatemala. The ruins are pretty incredible, protruding out of the Jungle with hundreds of monkeys and birds playing in the treetops, and leaf cutter ants working hard on their super ant highways through the park. After our tour and climbing as many temples as we could, Jeff and I ventured a bit more and then hung around for the sunset. It was a little cloudy, but still worth seeing. This morning I got up at 4:30 so I could sit atop temple IV to listen to the jungle come alive, and watch the sun rise up and shine down upon the Gran Plaza. Our bus back to Flores left without us and both being broke, used the last of our cash to hop on a bigger bus. 20 minutes into the ride, a tire popped, so the bus stopped to put on the spare...which wasn´t even in that much better of condition then the popped tire. Jeff took off to Rio Dulce just a little while ago, and I will hang out in Flores and Santa Elena until my overnight bus back to Antigua. Also!, there is a series of ponds at Tikal with Crocs! Tame, except very territorial amongst eachother. Photos: Mayan Sun God...Acrópolis del Norte in the Gran Plaza...Sunrise view from Temple IV (Star Wars fans might recognize this as the rebel base...and that it is. The 40 seconds it was in the movie cost $1 million. A fun fact)