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Another 'have to' stop in Guatemala is Tikal. It is in the middle of the Jungle and you can climb all the Pyramids to get a great view. We went there really early in the morning to see (hear) some parrots. The ruins themself are very spread out and everything is very well excavated. This spreads the masses of tourists a lot - but even though you can't compare it with El Mirador.
It was in Flores when Mark asked me if I was interested in joining a tour to El Mirador, and after getting some more information I joined them. But still there were a few things to organize, cos the ruins are 50km walking distance in the Jungle. But we found a guide (Adonis from San Andres) and a mule (Pepi) to carry all the stuff for 5 days and we were ready to start. First with the bus to Carmelita where we spent the night to start off early the next day. The first night in the jungle we spent an the Chickalera camp and meet some interesting people. The next day we continued. 9 1/2 hrs walking seemed not to end at all. And we were all glad to reach the camp - but to my disappointment, I couldn't see any ruins at all. After filling up on tortillas and beans we climbed on the closest pyramid to see the awesome cloudeless sky with endless number of stars.
El Mirador are the biggest Ruins in Central America, but they are not excavated (thats why we didn't see anything at the beginning). You can only recognize them when you stand about 20m in front of them. Thats why they weren't discovered for many years. When you hike up, it only seems to be a hill. El Mirador is really big - there is for example one platform where you climb up, and on this platform you find 3 further temples. The highest temple is 70m high and the view from the top was worth the 2 days of walking. Also except for us, there was noone for 20km. We could only hear the howling of Howler Monkeys.
On that day I also had one of my best showers of my live. As you can imagine, luxury in the jungle is not very high, and you are very graceful for a bucket of water on a swamp after a couple of days without a shower. The vermin wasn't to bad either. I once stopped walking for a few seconds in the middle of a ants-path. Within this short time I had them all my legs up - since then I was a bit more careful where to step and where to stop. The moskitos would only bite me, but disappeared during the night, cause it got really cold (I was really glad I had my sleeping bag with me !).
Then it was 2 more days to walk back, and the first cold beer in Carmelita (after drinking only warm, iodinesed water) tasted unforgetabely good.
Autor/in: Sonja Gaurek
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