From Antigua we carried on quite quickly to Flores, the gateway to Tikal. Probably the most impressive Maya Ruins ever discovered. The city is majestic and the 61 meter high Temples towering over the jungle canopy. Climbing some of the temples and seeing jungle for miles and miles on end with some other temples sticking out of the canopy will be the lasting impression for me. The city is build in the middle of the jungle and has therefore been only rediscovered in 1848. The solid stone pyramids and temples have been build in 700 BC but the heydays of the Mayan population in Tikal was around 250 AD, when Tikal sprawled over 30 square kilometres and had a population of about 100.000 people. I had been to Tikal on my last trip but for some reason Luke gave Tikal a miss last time around, so he was very keen to see it. But even I was excited to go a second time as Tikal had been one of the most striking memories of my last trip. We took a guide to get the most out of it and learn about history and significance of the different buildings. As we only arrived in Flores in the morning, after taking the over night bus from Guatemala City we checked in a Hostel and only took the bus at 10.00am to Tikal after having another sleep and some breakfast. It turned out to be a wise move as most tourist, similar to Machu Picchu, go as soon as gates open at 6.00 am in the morning. By the time our tour was over at about 3.00pm most tourist have already left and we had most places more or less for ourselves. The enormity of the whole complex is simply so impressive that you are speechless on how the Mayan have ever accomplished building such an impressive structure without even inventing the wheel. We only stayed one night in Flores and carried on over the border to Belize to Belize City, from there we took a water taxi straight to Caye Caulker, one of the less expensive and developed Cayes on the Belizian coast. On the journey over we meet some Australian girls, Karlie and Karla, who we ended up sharing a little house with on the Caye. Yesterday we went snorkelling in the second largest Barrier Reef in the wold, which is just 1.4 km from the coast of Caye Caulker. The first stop was a place called sting ray alley, where we encountered about 15 sting rays that where very interested and kept swimming around us. We carried on to the reef and saw many different reef fish and corals. It was one of the best snorkels we have ever done and the varieties and different colours of the fish were vast. Either tomorrow or the day after we are moving on to Mexico. To spent our last days in Tulum on the Yucatan Peninsular. There are also some more Mayan ruins there and I can’t wait to eat some Mexican food. Here the Caribbean food is also excellent and it is lobster season here. The local little shacks compete in price and on our first night we managed to get 1 whole lobster, 1 lobster tail, two sides, garlic bread, 4 drinks, and dessert each for only US$12! Who says you can’t have a cheapish Caribbean holiday.