Bus Cancun-Tulum
Our beach-chack in Tulum, the one right of Dani, on the third floor!!
View from our beach-chack in Tulum
Fishermen in Tulum
Dani and the Tulum Maya ruins.
Tulum, gorgeous flowers.
Benny and Tulum Ruins
Plastic Christmas in Chetumal, MX.
Our crappy night stay in Belize City. Total trafic chaos outside, and really crappy bed..
On the way towards El Remate from Belize.
Belize City harbor
Hammocks in the rain forest at Tikal, the Maya temples
Dani in the Hammock in Tikal
TIKAL! WOW!
Templo I, Tikal
Templo II, Tikal
Grand Plaza, Tikal
Akropolis, Tikal
Akropolis Sud? Tikal
Tikal - rain forest tree
Breakfast after 5 hour walking... Mmmmmgood! Except for the next picture...
Taco de la Dogshit.... Uuuu (the brown stuff is a bean porridge..)
Markus aus Deutschland (Bayern)..
Templo I from behind, Tikal
Tikal - ranger
Oy dos cervezas, por favor. (Enjoyed after climbing the highest temple, Templo IV.)
Volcano Pacaya, Antigua, Guatemala (with live-lava)
Hot - bird!
Hot - bird?
Volcano Pacaya sunset!
Look at the floating lava! Creepy, exciting!
Floating lava!!! Getting warmer now!
Mr Lava Lava...
Blurry night-lava shot
Even more blurry lava-shot..
Sunday market in Antigua, some locals enjoying lunch. We too!
Frutas.. Wonderful colors and smell.
Limes and beans.. Mmm... Looks delicious
Local maidens...
More colorful food!
Dani with the entire Antigua on her fingertip!
Antigua city scape.
Chicken bus!!!
Lago de Atitlan, on the way to San Pedro
Lago de Atitlan
San Pedro la Laguna / Chicken bus
San Pedro street
Local food shack in San Pedro (source of all evil, stomache problems?)
Markus and Dani enjoying a Gallo!!! Mmmm
Dani in the sun, san pedro
San Pedro city scape
San Pedro locals???
San Pedro. A realllyy freaky christmas carneval. Looks like Hollywood on speed!
San Pedro Christmas carneval, close up!
Chirstmas eve in San Pedro with Sternspritzer, tomtebloss, crappy red wine El Campeon, and even more crappy christmas cookies!!!!
Sternspritzer/tomtebloss in action
San Pedro christmas spirit... Mmmm...
San Pedro Christmas spirit and presents (now with flash)
Luna over Lago de Atitlan, wonderful!
Dani after christmas wine and cookies! Looks relaxed!
Christmas in San Pedro 2007. Markus and Benny are relaxed, enjoying the view!
Christmas flowers growing wild in San Pedro
San Pedro local maidens, and a chicken!
San Pedro chicken... By the way, it is orange!!
Beach view from Lago de Atitlan
Dani fluting with a local "flute retailer"
WOAAAARGHGHH... Our crappy room in San Pedro.. Moisty and not really good at all. From this point on we are more picky with the rooms!
Bus towards Xela, Quetzaltenango.
San Pedro market just before leaving.
Exhausting and shaky bus ride towards Xela.
Lago de Atitlan from the bus window.
Laundry in a village between San Pedro and Xela
Xela, Parque de la Centro Americana
Climbing central Americas highest peak, vulcano Tajamulco.
Tajumulco view point from the climb up
Tajumulco, heavy back packs.
Tajumulco / the group!
Tajumulco with chicken buses. The peak in the background.
Tajumulco, starting to be exhausting
Tajumulco, one really fresh and one really exhausted!
Tajumulco view point
Tajumulco, still sweating..
Tajumulco, an ice cream vendor on the way up (3700m!!)..
Tajumulco, local maidens doing the climb. Check their shoes!!!
Tajumulco.. Mayday, man down, man down...
Tajumulco, the wind is getting cooler
Tajumulco, vegetation on about 4000m, quite amazing.
Tajumulco, a short rest before continuing the ascent!
Tajumulco, more local maidens doing the peak! The tree shows traces from loco machete boys!
Sunrise on central America's highest peak, vulcano Tajumulco on 4200 m. Amazing sight
Tajumulco base camp at 4000m
Dani on the way down, day 2.
Tajumulco local cowboys (note the machete!)
Cheating the last bit down with a pickup!
On the way from Tajumulco to Xela in San Marcos, look at the loaded chicken bus, a quite common sight!
Zunil outside Xela towards hot springs
Zunil river... Yacky, with a vulture!
Dani boiling in Fuentes Georginas, hot!
Fuentes Georgina
Venus in the bath at Fuentes Georgina
Fuentes Georgina... First Gallo after the stomache-revolte, delicious but dangerous..
Zunil church (with bus...)
Chirstmas spirit in Zunil church, i.e. plastic!
Local maidens in bus from Zunil to Xela
New Year's Day in Xela, note the amount of cracker-paper!!! The day after the war...
Xela main square, to the right, next to the pillar is where I (Benny) vomited in front of a shocked audience! Well, it was their own bacteria they got back!
Deserving a coffee in Lanquin after a long bus ride!
Towards Grutas de Lanquin, Lanquin caves. With a water system running through them!
Grutas de Lanquin
Dani on the way into the caves of Lanquin.
Benny posing in front of the cave entrance, Lanquin.
Lanquin, Grutas de Lanquin. It is getting a bit warm in here!
Need to undress a bit. Lanquin.
Looking out from the cave entrance, Lanquin.
In the cave you get a bit craaazy. Lanquin.
Alien-like stalactites and stagmites. Grutas de Lanquin
So, time to get out and get some oxygen.... Lanquin
The stalactites in the background was amazing. Not as beautiful as the foreground, but still...
Cave climber(in), Grutas de Lanquin.
WARM!!!! It was soo warm and moisty in the Grutas de Lanquin!
Stalactites hanging from the ceiling. Lanquin
We found this boner in the cave... Lanquin
Air is getting fresher now! Lanquin
Water system Semuc Champey in the Jungle.
Et voila! Semuc Champey
Dani on a narrow path over the water! Semuc Champey
Semuc Champey from a view point high up on the hill side!
A HIGH viewpoint in Semuc Champey, swetty walk up!
We are both resting a bit before continuing down to the cool water in Semuc Champey.
Do you see the bathers? We will soon join them!
The water system is split in two; one part is above the ground and is quite calm and slow, the other part goes under ground some hundred of meters and is more rough!
Underground river, roaring!
Dani on the edge of the underground stream.
Time to get a bath!
Time to get a bath... But not here...
People in Semuc Champey, what are they called? Semuc Chimpansees, or what?
FINALLY!!! A graceful entering into the calm water, deserved after a long climb and walk.
Dani refreshing in the clear water. It was surprisingly not cold at all, perhaps around 24-25 C degrees.
Balancing on a wet log, impressive!!
Like paradise.
Like paradise, and now with Eva.
A kind swizz traveler took our picture here.
Time for a snack.
The wild, wild... River..
A jumpy bus ride from Semuc Champey to Lanquin.
The view on the way was strikingly beautiful!
The local electrical configuration had some space for improvement!!!
I (Benny) need new holes in the belt! The Carne a la Plancha at restaurant Dos Lunas in San Pedro/Lago de Atitlan constituted an effective way of getting slim, fast...
View from our window in our room in Lanquin!
From Lanquin towards Cobán and then Rio Dulce on the sea!
Just to show the excellent comfort in the chicken buses. My knees are dug into the seat in front of me. It must be stressed that this is a high comfort bus, since the seat in front of me is clothed even on the backside!!!
Fort outside Rio Dulce which Dani wanted me to take a picture of!
AAHHH She wanted me to take a picture with HER and the fort!! A small misunderstanding!
The boat rides on the river system was often quite wet, therefore we got a black plastic sheet to cover ourselves with.
Näckrosor (not a clue what the german or english translation would be)...
Birds in thousands. Looks like the swedish bird Stor-skrak also known as Ålakråka!
Now in Dangriga Belize.
Sleeping in Ruthie's Cabaña number #4 with a great view over the sea, Dangriga.
In Caye Caulker we found, after some struggle with local idiots, a nice place to stay with an excellent view over the sea! Well, this is me after a shower...
Enjoying eggs or omeletts for breakfast before snorkeling.
Snorkeling with nurse sharks is an experience. These sharks are not dangerous to man, they have very small teeth... Comfort?
Feeding the nurse sharks with fish made them really energetic, otherwise they are quite shy!
The foam in the water is from the sharks' splashing!
After the first snorkeling tour we are resting a bit.
Towards the last stop for today's snorkeling adventure.
Day three we went for a full day event. Dani diving and me snorkeling at the Blue Hole, Half moon caye, and the Acquarium. 2 jumpy hours out with a boat.
Dani after the Blue hole dive.
Banana cake... Yummy... Nice to have something sweet in the mouth after the salty sea water!
Half moon caye was a paradise island with wite sand, palm trees, and a turqoise water.
Going to see the Fregatte birds nesting on one part of the island.
The island was amazing with its scenery!
Coconut palms.
We've heard there should be some nice birds on this island!
Amazing sight. It takes approximately 20 mins for the male Fregate birds to inflate their red pouch on their throat. They use it to impress other males, and to attract females.
We are posing with the red love-birds in the background.
Heading back to the boat for today's last snorkling/dive.
Farewell paradise island!
Back again towards Caye Caulker after an amazing day full with new experiences for life!
We are both satisfied with today's work!
A tiny fisherman? He did not get anything what we saw, better luck another day!
Relaxing after a tough day with a beer and nice view.
Local transportation in a wooden canoe.
The last days of rest at the beach in Tulum
Dani practicing her yoga head stand...
Benny is practicing his beer drinking and beach resting... (compare previous photo!)
White sandy feet..
Caged spider monkies...
