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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

San ignacio

We left Caye Caulker and traveled to San Ignacio to get a taste of inland life.  Transportation is entirely by repainted old school busses, and they are about as comfortable as you would imagine. 

We stayed in a Bella's hostel, and continued to make colorful friends.  Amidore was a local Maya who hung around the hostel and close friends with the manager.  He fell madly in love with Sara, and would stare at her for uncomfortable periods of time.  I decided to use this opportunity to learn a bit about local libations. His drink of choice was tropical brandy and milk.  Tropical brandy is actually a rum according to him, but grapes are used to make it.  He referred to it as the "grape that scrapes".
Amidore overserved himself that evening, but I had to admit that the "grape that scrapes" was delicious with milk.  

The next morning we did a tour of Actun Tunichil Muknal.  The cave was a sacred sight of the Mayan.  We swam through the entrance and various sections and scrambled up boulders. If there are any international caving rules on safety, I am quite sure we broke them. But it was absolutely beautiful.  Unfortunately cameras are not allowed in the cave because a tourist dropped his camera through an ancient skull in 2012.  

The folowing morning we spent some time at a local swimming hole.  It happened to have all the waterfalls.