Tikal

We hopped on a minibus at 5 in the morning and rolled into Tikal before the sweltering heat hit. We trekked through the park by ourselves seeing very few other people the whole day. In the first few minutes of walking we were greeted by a swam of anteater like animals who seemed to be having a morning feast. A little bit after we saw an anteater mooching some bread (which I wouldn't have mind eating) off a old tourist. I informed him politely there were many signs about how to not feed the animals and he did a good job pretending he missed them all. We wandered around many of the temples below the jungle canopy with swinging howler monkeys who occasionally tried to poop on us for hours. We also got the tippy top of temple five to ourselves for an hour where we could see many other temples peeking out of the green and many miles of the park. On our way out we grabbed some crackers and we had yet another anteater come by and check us out. I thought it was being a little friendly, and soon it was launching itself across my lap and going for my cracker. It missed as I was very protective of my tasty cracker, but I wish the foolish old guy had been there to see it. We headed out just before the extreme heat set in and did some soaking in the lake next to our hotel. Heat lightning went on behind the clouds lighting them up a pretty orange for us and the moon that night had a cool ice ring glow around it.