Last full day in Belize! Bittersweet. This morning we got up a bit early, walked to Hode's Place for a PANCAKE breakfast! lol and then headed to Actun Tunichil Muknal cave!!! It was a couple hours to the cave, and it started raining and the ride was on super sketchy dirt roads, I swear I thought our bus was going to get stuck so many times.. But we made it just fine! We separated into groups of 8 and went with a guide. Our was this little Belizian five foot tall guy named Jamil, but we called him JamJam :) We hiked for about 40 minutes down to the cave, had to cross the river 3 times in order to get there. Once we got there we left our bags at the top (I didn't take one but some others did) and headed to the mouth of the cave. We had to swim for maybe 10-15 feet into the cave so we were totally wet right off the bat. From there we continued in, over rocks and through water that was anywhere from ankle deep to chest deep. That was probably the coolest thing I've ever done in my life, hands down.
There is lots of artifacts inside, like ceramics and human remains and stuff. We weren't allowed to take cameras inside, because tourists are dumb and drop their cameras on top of skulls and break bones, so since 3 weeks ago, no one can take cameras inside anymore.
The cave was way cool though, there were drops and sharp rocks and you have to be careful because you could easily hurt yourself or die. Haha. I totally loved it though and JamJam was a GREAT guide! He had us turn off our headlamps and lead eachother in the dark for a while, he would just disappear though and we'd start freaking out, but then he'd be right next to us and we'd feel dumb. lol. It was fun.
After ATM we just came back, showered and ate dinner at Hode's.. BBQ Chicken, potato salad, beans and tortillas. I forgot to mention that we had cake the other night 5/15 for someone's birthday, and tonight we had donuts for the same reason! yay birthdays!
Well I'm all packed up and ready to go tomorrow, for all day of flying and then a 16 hour train right, wooooo.
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