We were up early, had coffee and ate breakfast all by 6:30 a.m. since we had to be in the theatre at 6:45 to catch our tender to port for our all day excursion. It was a 30+ minute tender ride. Then we had a 1 hour, 20 minute bus ride to the New River. Our tour guide was Tina (she called herself an African Créole and was born in Belize. She was cute as could be and very funny. Our archaeologist was very knowledgeable and a Mestizo (combination Mayan and Spanish) and neither Jim nor I can remember his name).
Once we got to the New River, we rode in these river boats for over an hour to Lamanai Mayan Ruins.
Our boat operator spotted this alligator sunning himself on this log not too long after we'd gotten into the main channel of the river. I don't know how he could see him since we were flying down the river!
This is where McAfee lived before he fled Belize (yes, the security software McAfee).
A termite nest in this dead tree.
There is an owl on the whitish part of the branch that goes straight out to the right.
A snake cactus on the tree.
Burned palm trees.
One of 13 Amish communities in Belize.
The rest of the same Amish community.
We came flying around the corner of the river and found these Amish guys cooling it down by the water! I have no idea how I was able to get their picture!
It was such a calm day.
Beautiful white bird!
Once we got to the Lamamai Mayan Ruins, our archaeologist took over the tour.
Jaguar Temple - it was very sacred and no one was allowed to climb on it.
High Temple - people were allowed to climb on this.
Jim climbed this one.
From the top.
The final temple that people were allowed to climb on.
After visiting the ruins, we made a fast trip back up New River and had lunch before boarding the bus back to the port to catch the tender back to the ship.
It was a horrible tender ride ruined by loud, obnoxious, disrespectful Tennessee Vols college students who didn't care that they were bothering everyone else on the boat. When asked to tone it down, they got louder. It was disgusting. Towards the end I thought one man was really going to start something with them, but then we got to the ship and they quieted down.
We were back in our cabin after dinner by 7:30. We were tired after the long day and I needed to do a bit of hand laundry (I don't sent my undies to the ship's laundry to be washed in hot water).
We got our second towel animal tonight!
This bat hangs right next to our towel monkey!
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