Last night the me and the crew headed to the nightlounge to drink tequila and put off saying our goodbyes for a few more hours. We played a pretty raunchy phone game called Picolo or something along those lines. Our fitting nicknames were Chad, Weasel, Bro Job, and Boulderdouche. We also moved onto a raunchy game of large jenga afterwards. The tequila flowed and Troy made it all the way until 10pm before he passed out drunk.
After the rowdy night I crashed into bed and was woken up to say buy to the crew as they are continuing onto Semuc Champey and I’m going to stay here longer and probably head back to Belize soon. It was quite sad but after a little more sleep I was ready to put my Indiana Jones hat back on and head to the ruins.
Today I went to Yaxha, the other major Mayan ruin out here. A lot of the structures look the same as Tikal, but it’s much more overgrown by wildlife, which I actually thoroughly enjoyed. The whole day we had spider and howler monkeys jumping around overhead screeching and shaking the trees. We also saw a buttload more toucans, a scorpion, and a tarantula. I ended up being far more enthralled by the nature than the ruins. During the tour the guide mentioned a tour of something called “El Mirador” which are more Mayan ruins which can only be seen by a 5-7 day hike through the jungle. I instantly pulled out my bucket list and added this.
Eventually we had to head back so I jumped on the bus and went directly to my favorite tacostand in Peten to get me some tacos.