Day 10: Rio Dulce
Friday morning we woke up in paradise, went out to our porch overlooking the lake and lay on the hammock... for about 10 minutes until we got itchy feet and decided to go have some breakfast. Breakfast consisted of exactly the same as dinner the previous evening: 2 fried eggs, fried plantains, black beans and cream cheese. Still I wasn't complaining, it was some of the best food we'd had so far.
After breakfast we decided to head over to this amazing hot waterfall type thing that falls onto a cold river below thus creating a natural sauna type thing... or something :) I think by now MIli and I were a bit overloaded on travelling and natural things to be too impressed, but we had a fun morning's swim anyhow. Saw some beautiful butterfiles on the way, including a huge Monarch butterfly.
After the waterfall we went back to the finca. We had been toying with staying there another night, but for some reason decided we should go on to Rio Dulce. We knew there was a bus coming past the Finca at around 2pm. It was 1pm we hadn't yet packed and mili was not feeling too great. At the finca we met some canadians that were also going onto rio dulce so we convinced them to wait for us and go together (safety from being ripped off in numbers.) Since Mili couldn't walk to the road we comandeered a tractor for 30Q for the 4 of us.
Once on the main road, the first vehicle to come past was a pick up truck, so we jumped on the back and rode all the way to Rio Dulce in the back. I think I may have been on just about every mode of transport in guatemala so far... The pick up truck was great though, we stood up and enjoyed the feel of the wind rushing past (does that sound too romantic? it was fun)
Once in Rio Dulce we went to stay at Hacienda Tijax, which I think is one of the swankiest places in town, but don't let that fool you. I was impressed just by the fact that I could pay by card!!! It's quite hard to get hold of cash here, so it's always best to save it for an emergency.
The hotel was so nice and it was so hard to get anywhere else in Rio Dulce (everything is done by lancha (power boat)) that we decided to stay there and eat nice food all day long. Boring but a much needed day of rest. I know this entry probably doesn't make much sense but I'm very tired, I shall clean up everything once I get back.