Mar 5, 2020 | Central America
We had our final group farewell dinner in Playa del Carmen. Consistent with tradition, Ronnie wrote a Purple poem and recited it for the group. Group drinks – Amad missing as he was the photographer Encountering Mayans A Purple poem by Ronnie In Antigua the...
Mar 3, 2020 | Central America
From Caye Caulker we took a powerful speedboat back to the mainland, for the border crossing into Mexico. Goodbye Belize Immigration It was a strange border experience. We got off the boat, went through a building with the usual passport and customs formalities, then...
Mar 3, 2020 | Central America
We took (yet another) bus and a ferry to Caye Caulker, a Caribbean island paradise. There are no cars on the island, only golf buggies and bikes. Arriving at the dock Briefing from Tati our CEO (Chief Experience Officer) The island...
Mar 2, 2020 | Central America
We took a bus journey to San Ignacio, crossing the border into Belize. It was very strange after being in Spanish-speaking countries in South and Central America for seven weeks to suddenly being somewhere that the official language is English. We went cave tubing,...
Mar 2, 2020 | Central America
We headed by bus to Flores, the base town for reaching the Mayan pyramid site of Tikal. Tikal is perhaps the most majestic Mayan pyramid site, and is laid out following the Pleiades constellation in the same way that the Egyptian pyramids at Giza are laid out...
Mar 1, 2020 | Central America
We met our new G Adventures group and CEO in Antigua. After a group dinner, we took a long bus journey to Rio Dulce. Rio Dulce is a large, navigable river, flowing 43km from Lake Izabal into the Caribbean sea. We crossed the second biggest bridge in Central America,...
