Calakmul

Estamos en Chetumal, en camino a Majahual que esta en el caribe. Pasamos dos noches increibles en las ruinas/biosfera de Calakmul – al lado de Guatemala. Las ruinas fueron impresionantes, y vimos monos (arania y ahullador) tucanes, y otras aves. Conocimos a una gente muy buena onda en el parque. Casi nos comen unas hormigas en un momento, y Mateo y Gustavo se tuvieron que sacar la ropa completamente para que no los picaran! Suerte que no habia nadie en la vuelta. Mas despues…ahora a la playa! Despues ponemos mas fotos y video de los monos (p.d. la copa que tenia Mateo era un cocktel de mariscos, que lo compartimos entre todos!)
We are now in a coffee shop in Chetumal, on our way to Majahual on the Caribbean Sea! We feel the need for some beach and sun….We just spent two nights in the biosphere reserve of Calakmul, and we loved it! The ruins are 60 km in, but 20 km in there is a place to camp run by a man who works there, Miguel, and since we stayed there for two nights we got to know him a bit. We got up at the crack of dawn yesterday to drive the remaining 40 km and be the first ones into the ruins. It was amazing – the photos speak for themselves. We also saw toucans, howler monkeys, spider monkeys, and lots of wild peacocks. We didn’t see any jaguars or other cats, but we could smell them! We came out to the parking lot for lunch, which we ate with a nice family we met in the ruins, and then we went back in for the afternoon and saw lots of monkeys playing in the trees. At one point we were so deeply absorbed looking at an unidentified, large bird of prey that we were almost devoured by a colony of stinging ants. Mateo and Gustavo had to take off all of their clothes behind the ruins to get the ants off! Luckily we were almost the only people around. We met some really nice people, Canadians and Mexicans, and we will put more photos on later. For now we don’t have a very good internet connection – we also have some video of the monkeys, so stay tuned (hopefully there will be internet in Majahual)
p.s. that was a seafood cocktail in front of Mateo – full of crab, shrimp, octopus, clams, oysters, etc! The kids were not all that amused (especially about the octopus, since it’s endangered)