Tikal and Flores

Not many words today, just a few pictures. Unlike Chichen Itza, I got to spend a whole day (Chrtistmas Eve) in Tikal, Guatemala. Below are a few of them. It was fantastic as the temples have been excavated but the rest of the enormous site is still thick rainforest.

The Central Americans celebrate Feliz Navidad on Christmas Eve, and Flores was a beautiful place to spend it. Flores itself is an island connected by a pont to the mainland town Santa Elena.

I flew from Flores to Guatemala City on Christmas Day, and then onto San Jose in Costa Rica where I've met up with Siobhan from New York. Siobhan is down for ten days or so, and we'll be in Costa Rica the whole time. We're currently at the Montaña de Fuega (Mountain of Fire) Hotel, underneath the Arenal Volcano. Breakfast in their dining room must be what Pompeii felt like circa AD60: listening to piped music and eating toast while a volcano bubbles away in the foreground.