En La Bosca
Last weekend we did a three day trek into the jungle to the Mayan sites of El Zotz and Tikal. Sleeping outdoors in hammocks, not a shower in sight for 3 days, immense heat and humidity, mosquitos, and the most horrendous toilets ever!
Day 1. El Cruce to El Zotz- a 5 hour trek into the jungle. At sunset we visited some caves to watch millions of bats. As they flew within a whisker of our faces it began to smell like chicken sheds and was a real David Attenborough moment.
Day 2. In the morning we visited the ruins at El Zotz, which are unexcavated and overgrown. In the afternoon we trekked for 3 hours to our next camp in the middle of nowhere, where it lamped it down with rain.
Day 3. After a challenging night in the hammocks we set off on the final leg of the journey, a further 5 hour trek through deep jungle and lots of sticky smelly mud, ending in Tikal, and at last a decent toilet!
Animals we encountered- 3 dead tarantulas and one live one, a scorpion, lots of really evil looking spiders with massive webs (all across the paths we were walking on).
Bats, bats, bats, bats flapping around our heads!!! little leathery wings flapping in our ears!!
Lots of occelots (we think) with long stripey tails. There were also loads of monkeys swinging through the trees and shaking the branches so fruit dropped on us! All the time we could hear Howler monkeys (but never saw any), they sounded like monsters in a horror movie, which really gave me the willies when I was trying to get to sleep.
Day 1. El Cruce to El Zotz- a 5 hour trek into the jungle. At sunset we visited some caves to watch millions of bats. As they flew within a whisker of our faces it began to smell like chicken sheds and was a real David Attenborough moment.
Day 2. In the morning we visited the ruins at El Zotz, which are unexcavated and overgrown. In the afternoon we trekked for 3 hours to our next camp in the middle of nowhere, where it lamped it down with rain.
Day 3. After a challenging night in the hammocks we set off on the final leg of the journey, a further 5 hour trek through deep jungle and lots of sticky smelly mud, ending in Tikal, and at last a decent toilet!
Animals we encountered- 3 dead tarantulas and one live one, a scorpion, lots of really evil looking spiders with massive webs (all across the paths we were walking on).
Bats, bats, bats, bats flapping around our heads!!! little leathery wings flapping in our ears!!
Lots of occelots (we think) with long stripey tails. There were also loads of monkeys swinging through the trees and shaking the branches so fruit dropped on us! All the time we could hear Howler monkeys (but never saw any), they sounded like monsters in a horror movie, which really gave me the willies when I was trying to get to sleep.
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