Tikal

Well, I was finaly able to make it up to the great Mayan Ruins of Tikal. I went with one of my best Guatemalan friends from the summer last year, Olga. We had a wonderful time seeing and climbing the ruins. It was super hot and there were definitely misquitos, but it was totally worth it. We did it all in two days and one night. We took a very small 18 passenger plane, and made it safe and sound. Guess who we saw making sacrifices in the altars at the ruins? No one other than Rigoberta Manchu who is famous here in Guatemala as she won the Nobel Peace Prize. She is the one in the traditional clothes trying to cover her face with the green towel. I want to learn a bit more about her, but she fought for the rights of the indigenous people of Guatemala as well. It was a great trip, we met a guy from Spain named Angel and kinda hung out with him a lot because us three were really the only Spanish speakers in the hotel. It was really funny because his Spanish is so different than ours. A lot of the words he uses we totally don't use for the same type of thing as he does. Even Olga had dificulty understanding him at times! But he told me that I should be able to get by in Spain which is exciting. It's really odd because for some reason I keep running into Angel when I'm in Antigua. I guess Antigua seems like a pretty big city, but really it's not. Ok, so check out these pics.