Okay, the canopy tour (ziplining) was a blast. Kylee didn't inherit any of my fear of heights, lucky for her. I'm lucky I've done it before because I can feel that familiar feeling of panic and just keep going up. The zipping doesn't bother me, it's the climbing up and standing on the really platforms.
Those things are stinking high! At least once we were up there we just zipped from one platform to another, we didn't hike in between them (it was HOT.) Sometimes we climbed to a higher platform, but we didn't have to actually hike. It was a blast. For one of the zips, Kylee and I put our equipment on backwards and then flew like superman. It was a little unnerving having arms and legs totally free, but it was so fun. I thought we took a lot of pictures but apparently I took a lot of video. Just a couple pictures.
And a t-shirt to top it off. All of that for just $25 apiece!
After zipping we were pretty hot. It was the middle of the day, the sun was shining and it is about 90 percent humidity. Lucky for us, this hotel has a pool! We put on our suits and jumped right in. Then we snoozed in the sun for a couple hours. As we enjoyed the pool, 2 families of monkeys came to hang out in the tree above us. One family of howlers and one family of spiders. We're feeling like pros because we can tell them apart. They are so fun to watch. There were 10 of them and 3 little tiny babies. They just swing around eating food and jumping from one branch to another. They just hang there from their tails picking at leaves and looking around...it was so cute!
When we got hungry we walked down to the Jaguar Inn - which is more of a campground. We were sick of the food at our place, so we thought we'd try hamburgers & french fries. The ketchup is gross, but the french fries were SO good. I also had a greek salad, which I assumed would be on lettuce but no. It was basically cucumber, tomatoes and onion with a bunch of feta cheese. It WAS nice for a change to have actual vegetables with NO oil. The feta was also a welcome change from the liquid cheese that is usually on everything. It was yummy!
We decided to try crocodile hunting that night. Our waiter hooked us up with a guide for $20 and we agreed to meet him outside at 7:00. So, we went home to change and shower and go back. We got there at 7:00 but our guide wasn't ready until 7:30. We "renegotiated" and ended up paying 100Q apiece. That's more like $20 apiece. Oh well, not my night for the negotiation :) Anyway, it was totally worth it. We walked through the dark jungle for 20 minutes and then got to a lake. When we saw this sign we knew we were getting close.
Then we saw this little guy and took a picture.
Are you wondering how we found him in the dark? Their eyes glow in the dark! Same with tarantulas. Yuck! Our guide was used to foreigners freaking out about the scorpions, but we are from Arizona so we didn't freak out. We took a picture...because he was BLACK. Sand scorpions in AZ are light colored and can be deadly. One of the most deadly species. THIS scorpion is ugly, but not deadly. He will hurt you, but not kill you. They don't even bother to treat the stings! Still, I wouldn't want to share my room with him...
Back to our hunting trip. As we approached the lake we shined our flashlights and immediately saw 2 big shiny eyes staring at us.
Can you see his creepy little eyes??
This is how far away we were...can you still see his eyes? They're the 2 dots closest together and in the mid-left range...in the pitch dark. I swear he knew we were coming. We turned off our lights for a few minutes to see if we could get him to come closer and it was so spooky. Pitch dark and every sound we heard we could swear he was coming out to get us! When we turned our lights back on he was GONE. We followed the guide around a little "island" of land and shined our lights again and he had so kindly gotten out of the water and was in full view sitting on the edge of his house. It was pretty incredible. He was big and big, and big. and so very close! After we turned our lights off again he slinked back into the water and stared at us. We took off, I think he was getting hungry. We went to another little lake and saw 3 little baby crocs. Two of them kept their distance but a little one slinked up close enough to take a picture (that didn't turn out.) It was so little, it was practically a lizard. So cute we wanted to touch it, but it was kind of in the mud and we knew his mom would be fast enough to get to us. It was a fun, spooky night in the jungle.
We went back to the restaurant and shared a chocolate banana crepe and then went to bed. We are going to have to buy some nutella so we can make those things. Check out our beds. This was such a nice hotel!
Tomorrow we are traveling back to Flores for the night, then we will bus back to Guate city on Tuesday. :(
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