We had to stay an extra night on the Caribbean coast and we were happy to do so. As you can imagine, we spent all day in hammocks with our friends that were volunteering at the hostel. We've met some great people, but none friendlier than this bunch.
We had our entire weeks stay on a tab at the hostel and had to man up to our first big bill. Yikes! Adding it up in our head, we imagined a step price for the four of us... 6 nights, breakfast lunch and dinners, snacks, and of course plenty of happy hour beers added up to a total of 1200Q, merely 150 dollars!
We took another boat back down the a Rio Dulce, and hopped on a 4 hour charter bus to Isla de Flores.
We were recommend by some travels we met to stay at Los Amigos, and as soon as we showed up we ran into some old friends we had previously dormed with. This place quickly became our favorite hostel!
Since staying here, we have been with many well traveled people from all over the world. We have meet people from Australia, Israel, New Zealand, Germany, Sweden, Chile, and even as close to home as Mission Viejo! We now have more reasons to travel once we return!
After our first night, we got a group together and adventured off down the river. We were told of an awesome water slide a little bit down from where we were and decided to check it out. What was suppose to be a water park with animals, turned into a zoo with a slide! But this was better than any zoo that we had been to in the states. We got to see an alligator, puma, jaguar, monkeys, toucans, and everything in between!
From there, we had no choice but to make it down the water slide. This slide was nothing compared to anything at Wild Rivers. We first had to clean the leaves off the entire slide, splash water all around to make it slippery, while hoping that we would make it out alive. We even went far enough to put sunscreen on our ass cheeks to speed up the process! It was such a blast, and we ended up going down multiple times.
After a long day on the water, we decided to treat ourselves to a spa day! It cost a total of 6 dollars and included a steam bath with a sea salt scrub and a honey rub. We felt totally refreshed and ended up having an skipping the nightlife because we were to wake up early the next morning for Tikal. We dozed off to the sound of a local bible study group singing next door to our room. From morning to night, our whole day was relaxing and very much needed!
Before any of our 4:10am alarms went off we were ready to rock n' roll. We were eager to wake as we knew what this day meant to each of us. Tikal has been on our minds since before we even got here. When we arrived to the temples we were in compete awe. It was fascinating to see such great big structures created by the Mayans. We got caught up wondering about each and every thing we saw. Thoughts like: Who did this? What did they use? Why so big? When did they start? How many of the Mayans helped? We were truly submerged and didn't want to take our eyes off our surroundings.
We got back to our hostel to enjoy our last few hours with the friends we had met. We walked around town one last time and took an hour or so dangling our toes in the water off the dock. Moments like these making leaving extremely hard, but, the trip must go on!
We leave tonight at 9pm from Flores and arrive 10 hours later in Antigua to regroup at Grandma Sherry's for a night or two.
As of now, we plan on leaving for El Paredon, a surf village on the Pacific Ocean by Sunday to volunteer for some time. We've been told this is a great surf spot and that a big swell is on it's way! Cross your fingers for us as we know you all are enjoying the big surf back home!
Our Aussie friends enjoy us yelling "Rock n' Roll!" at the bar so it's only appropriate...
First we Rock, then we Roll...
Rock n' Roll!
-From your Cali Boyz
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