So...today we´re on the Rio Dulce river in a ecotourism ¨camp¨. We are staying in open air huts, with many little creatures sharing our bed space with us. Scorpions. Large (palm of your hand sized) spiders. A water creature that Lynne nor I could identify this morning. But we stayed away from the edge of the water! We hear the sounds of the jungle all around us. There are beautiful flowers dripping from enormous leafed plants, streamers-creepers hanging from the trees. Our huts are thatch roofed, wood floored, very sweet. Can we say it´s hot? It´s hot.
There are cruise boat tours coming in along with us. Many of the students stayed up and swam in the lovely, water fall pool last night. Got told in just the nicest terms by another camp patron to be quiet. We have found that Danny is the champion of exterminators for us. He rid us of the large spider fearlessly. He was called back over to the girl´s hut for the scorpion, but it made an escape. He is fearless though. Scorpions are just good at getting away. There was a lot of screaming, dancing feet, and beating the floor with brooms.
Later today we will go up further into the Peten region and find our hotel that is near the Tikal ruins. Tomorrow we will be up before sunrise to climb Tikal and watch the sun come up from the top. We are all pretty excited for that major experience. We haven´t had much opportunity to get on the blog, we´re just going, going, going so much. But, here we´ve had a chance and are glad to be able to let everyone know what´s happening with us.
Jessica and Laura
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