Sunday 10 June 2012

Tikal - More "Indiana Jonesing"



First glimpse through the forest


This is where the "well off" lived






Like this one




Silly tourists,

Dimi, Dave, Desley, Katie, Kimmy, Rachel and Rachel Sammy Martin and Viv


This is what they were looking at.


Top of Temple IV





Morning smoko


Tour guides son


Sammy and Viv



Like Father like son, he even has a stick in his hand aswell. Too cute.


Like this one




The special part of the tour, not in the "official walk"

The guides let us go down underground to see the restoration process of paintings and steps.


Steps being restored - underground


More steps, apparently all the sites looked like this but time has degraded it all.


Amazing Mayan artwork.




Dubba doing the snake


Pretty excited!!


If it was this hard for Dave to get through...



Misty lens on the way out


Lost city, soo steep. Don't know how they got up it.


Spider monkey doing his thing.