Next day we took a scary mini-bus to Lanquin in the highlands. Lots of people there still speak Mayan as their first, and often only, language. After a night in Lanquin, we took a tour in the Semuc Campey national park. The first part of the tour was a really cool cave tour. Very different than what you could do in a western country, no helmets, no safety harnesses and if you don’t bring your own headlamp they give you and candle, which you have to hold aloft while you swim along the underground river!!! We got to climb up an underground waterfall, jump off a ledge into a dark pool, and slide down a natural waterlogged chute into an adjoining chamber. Would have made for some great pictures but we don’t have a waterproof camera.
The next stop was a bridge where our guide showed us the where to jump from to avoid hitting the rocks. I followed all the instructions and executed my jump perfectly but Bel wasn’t so lucky. As she was getting ready to jump a mini-bus full of tourists pulled up and started taking photos and then when she did jump she broke the golden rule and failed to enter the water completely vertical. This resulted in a red backside and much mirth from the mini-busers.
It was time for lunch so we brought some food from a local vendor and then carried it for about 20 minutes up to a lookout (followed all the way by a random dog).
We finished the day off with a swim in a series of connected pools that also have another river running underneath them!
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