Planet Kapow 24 : Caye Caulker to Tikal

WE PASSED: a few lifeless days in Mexico in what we called "rest and reCubaration", racing through the markets of Chetumal to stock up on all the bits and pieces lost or worn into the ground along the way. When we began to feel the first flickers of enthusiasm returning, we jumped a bus to Belize, where we were promptly ripped off for $20 at the border post (we had a joke back then that has ceased to be a joke and become something between superstition and fact - that every border crossing in Latin America would end with us being ripped off exactly three times; no more, no less) and switched to a decommissioned American school bus, canary yellow, jangling like a sack of coins, lovely and breezy while moving but stickily suffocating the moment it came to a halt. These, the famous chicken buses, were to become the sole form of transport across Central America. For the main part they were enjoyable but trying to fit Adam into one required some complex body origami. read more: http://www.planetkapow.com/1678