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Guatemala, Central America
March 29, 2003
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Our first stop in Guatemala was at Tikal, the ancient Mayan village.
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Witness La Ceiba, Guatemala's national tree. Wild!
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Dot rests her bootie on the first of many ruins.
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An ancient Mayan hieroglyphics sign that says "don't take pictures of this."
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A crazy flower close-up.
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The ruins of Tikal peek out from the jungle treetops.
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If you look closely, those are people on top of that pyramid.
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One of these ruins was so steep they needed to build a wooden ladder to reach the top.
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They runied it.
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Another incredible ruin in Tikal.
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Bert and Paul study the ancient ruins.
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"What have we here?" asks Dot.
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"....all the better to eat you with my dear."
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"OK, moving on, no intention of touching you." This animal is a cousin to the racoon, just like Dot.
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Ruinalicious!
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"What, no escalator!"
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"You can trade your monkey for what's beneath Mayan slab number one or Mayan slab number two."
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Extraordinary Mayan ruin in Tikal.
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Courtyard amongst the ruins.
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Indiana Jones and wife?
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"Oh come on, I could have built this myself."
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We got delayed in front of a banana truck at the Honduras border. It took 23 hours to enter this country. The horse gave us his opinion of this border.
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The weekend we were in Honduras we planned to go snorkeling on Roatan Island but a storm came out of nowhere and travel was difficult as evidenced by this bus.