Cahal Pech

So Belize is filled with Mayan ruins which I love. Archaeology has always had my interest and visiting some of the places in Central and South America has always been a dream of mine. With that being said today we went to one of the ruins called Cahal Pech.

Our entire group took taxis up to the ruins which is like 2 miles away and when we got there nobody was there. We paid the $10 Belize for entrance and then set out for the ruins. Big huge stone buildings where you could see what went where. For the most part I was amazed by the fact that we had the entire place to ourselves. I got some cool photos but I'm not able to put them up right now because my apple laptop doesn't want to play nice with my superior phone. But once I'm able to get the photos up I will.

The ruins weren't very large I would say a small community had lived there. You could go inside their stone huts where they had huge slabs of smoothed stone for beds. We also saw where the market was and also where the priests had their temple used for blood sacrifices. Apacolypto anyone? Very cool to see it was almost surreal.

After we spent about 2 hrs in the ruins we headed to a resort to swim in the pool. $10 Belize to swim and the water felt so nice. We spent close to 3 hours playing various pool games and enjoying the relaxing break from the heat. Kristina has had swimmers ear for the past week but we she got in and swam anyway. Poor girl she's been going nuts from the water stuck in her ear.

By the time we were done swimming my hands and feet were nice and pruny. So we all dried off and headed out to find a restaurant that served some good Belizian food. I don't know why, but for some reason I love rice and beans I always have. So I got some rice and beans with chicken and fried plantains and chased it with some watermelon juice. Watermelon juice can be found everywhere and it is delicious.The rest of the day was spent exploring the town and resting on the veranda in the hammock. I took a cold shower to wash off the sweat and pool water and then relaxed until it got dark.

Danielle and I headed down the street a little bit to a DVD shop where this kid sells burnt DVD's for $5 Belize each. I talked to him a bit and happened to be wearing my "Vegetarian" shirt at the time. So he filled me in that we could get some good "veggies" from him. Haha I thanked him for the offer. After talking for a bit I got him to give us discounts promising good business and the fact that we would return what we purchased when we left. He seemed to think it was good so I made a friend and got a discount at his place. I bought Olympus Has Fallen because I've never seen it. So I'll watch it later on.

Most of the locals loved my "vegetarian" shirt and true to their Rasta ways promptly filled me in on where to find the best stuff. I just laughed and found it funny. One guy played for us his rap song he made about Belize and talked to us a bit in Kriol. I still want to learn it.