October 29- November 24

Palenque

So I obviously haven't been on top of this. I will try to summarize what has happened in the last month. After Real de Catorce we headed to Guadelajara. We spent halloween and the day of the dead there. There were some celebrations for the day of dead, some live music, but no parades or anything. It was still really fun because it was such a beautiful city. We also had a really interesting hotel. We checked in at like 7am the morning we arrived and the lobby was empty. But by the time we got up and got out again around noon there were already about 7 prostitutes hanging out in the lobby. We then realized why they had full time cleaning staff. But they were friendly.
After Guatelajara we went to Saluyita on the coast. It was really touristy and expensive and someone broke into our hotel room the first day and stole my iphone and gps. I cried for the entire time we were there and hated it.
After that we headed down to Palenque. The first day there we saw the ruins which were incredible. They were situated right in the jungle and there were all these beautiful waterfalls around the site. The next day we went and saw two more sites, Bolampak and Yaxchilan. We saw howler and spider monkeys at the second site which is the first time I have ever seen a monkey in the wild!
After Palenque we headed to Belize to the island of Caye Caulker. It was a cool little island with a relaxed atmosphere where we basically just chilled for 5 days. It was really expensive though.

Xunantunich

After Caye Caulker I unfortunately had to say by to my travel buddy Ben as he had to head back to Cancun. So from there I travelled alond to San Ignacio Belize. I saw the ruins of Xuanantunich. I didn't stay long though in San Ignacio because of the cost.
I headed to Flores Guatemala after two nights in St Ignacio. I have been here for two nights now. I saw Tikal today which was by far the best site I´ve seen. It was huge and there was so much wild life. I´m hoping to do a five day trek to El Mirador in the next couple of days but it depends on if anyone else signs up. I am so home sick at this point I am looking to speed things up, but still having a blast. I will try to update this a little more frequently from now on though haha.