Tikal to Flores

We are now in Guatemala.
We took a shuttle from San Ignacio, Belize to Tikal, Guatemala where we camped for 2 nights. We went into the Ruins for an evening walk on Friday, if we bought our ticket after 3pm, the next day would be included. We did a quick tour of the 3 biggest temples and basically ran to the top of them. We only had about 2 hours of day light and the entire ruin site is 16 square kilometres (though we didn´t venture to the outer reaches that day). As we were leaving I practically stepped on a boa constrictor, it was about 1.5 meters long and was just laying across the path, I thought it was dead at first. But then Ian got in close and started to play with it. It was hissing and trying to bite him. Ian kept grabbing it so it couldn´t escape. Crazy! We went to the local commedore (restaurant) for a few beers to celebrate our first wild snake encounter.
Saturday we spent a good 5 hours wandering around the ruins and we did get to the outer reaches of the site. No more snakes but lots of Spider and Howler Monkeys. A mob of coatis (long nosed and long tail brown racoon type things) ran by us while we were making breakfast that morning too. Later on, we saw a ton of police and military enter the site. It turns out that there was some sort of Mayan traditional ceremony that was going on and someone from the Canadian government was there. Nobody could tell me more than that though.

This morning we caught a minibus from Tikal to Santa Elena (a town 5 mins from Flores) then we took a Tuk-tuk to our hotel in Flores. Tuk-tuks look like they belong in asia, they´re 3 wheeled covered motorcyle type things. Flores is an island in Lake Peten Itza (yes, the same Itza´s as in Chichen Itza, they were a major Mayan family or tribe) connected to the mainland by a bridge. It´s very small and pretty touristy but very beautiful. We´re staying in a nice hotel with the view of the lake and a TV and it´s cheaper than some of the dives we stayed in in Belize and Mexico. We´re just going to hang out for a few days then we´re heading south to Rio Dulce.