1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,600 What's up y'all? 2 00:00:08,600 --> 00:00:12,240 Thanks for joining the Travel Tales and Talk podcast with Derek and Makayla. 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:13,240 I'm Derek. 4 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:14,240 I'm Makayla. 5 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:21,580 Thanks for listening and enjoy the show. 6 00:00:21,580 --> 00:00:27,080 Today we're talking about our adventure in Guatemala here on episode eight. 7 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:29,920 Sweetheart, what brings us to Guatemala? 8 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:30,920 Why are we here? 9 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:31,920 Oh, Tacal. 10 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:37,000 I want to see the Mayan ruins of Tacal. 11 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,560 Another UNESCO World Heritage. 12 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:40,560 You know me. 13 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:41,560 There you go. 14 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:42,560 I'm a fighter. 15 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:43,560 You be fighting those. 16 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:44,560 Sure do. 17 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:45,560 You track them down. 18 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:46,560 You got them bookmarked in your phone. 19 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:52,880 Then we also wanted to visit Antigua and you had the crazy idea of scaling a volcano. 20 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:53,880 Not scaling a volcano. 21 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:58,080 I wanted to roast marshmallows on an active volcano. 22 00:00:58,080 --> 00:00:59,080 Okay. 23 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:02,960 That'll work too. 24 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:06,680 And then we were going to do a stay at the Hobbit town. 25 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:08,680 What was the proper name of this location? 26 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:09,680 Hobbitanango. 27 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:10,680 Hobbitanango. 28 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:14,080 And then of course your amazing, amazing IG photographs. 29 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,120 You don't stop with these IG pictures. 30 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:20,560 I do not be picking trips to take IG pictures. 31 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:21,560 Yes you do. 32 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:22,560 Why you want to go to Iceland? 33 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:24,560 Oh, I want to take IG pictures on the black beach. 34 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:26,120 I wanted to see Diamond Beach. 35 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:27,120 Oh, Diamond Beach. 36 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:31,560 I want to go on some black sand with some ice at my backside. 37 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:32,980 We digress. 38 00:01:32,980 --> 00:01:37,520 So now we're in Guatemala and we really enjoy Guatemala. 39 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:42,840 Our travel plans are we have to fly to Memphis because we have to take our pets to the parents 40 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,520 so they can pet sit while we're in Guatemala. 41 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:46,520 Pet sit. 42 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:47,520 Fur babies. 43 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:48,520 Fur babies. 44 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:49,520 I'm sorry. 45 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:50,520 I'm sorry. 46 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:51,520 They had to take care of our babies while we're out of town. 47 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,920 So we have to transport our four beagles and our rabbit. 48 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:57,720 The rabbit stayed with my sister. 49 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,680 The dog stayed with mom and dad. 50 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:05,960 So we couldn't leave them in Lexington because we had no one to watch them for that amount 51 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:06,960 of time. 52 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:14,200 So we fly from Memphis to Atlanta and from Atlanta we land in Guatemala City. 53 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:19,240 And let me say coming into Guatemala City, what an amazing view. 54 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:20,640 It's surrounded by volcanoes. 55 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:22,520 I did not notice. 56 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,960 Guatemala has 37 volcanoes. 57 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:26,960 Did you know that? 58 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:27,960 I did. 59 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:28,960 I didn't know that. 60 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:29,960 Yes. 61 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:30,960 Learn something new every time we travel. 62 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,400 I didn't even know there was that many volcanoes on planet earth. 63 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:41,700 But anyway, the city, Guatemala City is surrounded like four of them and two of them are active. 64 00:02:41,700 --> 00:02:46,880 So Fuego is active and then you have what's the other one? 65 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:47,880 Pacaya? 66 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:48,880 Pacaya, yes. 67 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:49,880 Pacaya. 68 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:51,880 Then Agua and then the other one. 69 00:02:51,880 --> 00:02:53,640 Give me that one. 70 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:54,640 What's that one in Spanish? 71 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:55,640 Acatenango. 72 00:02:55,640 --> 00:02:56,640 Acatenango. 73 00:02:56,640 --> 00:02:57,640 Yeah. 74 00:02:57,640 --> 00:03:04,600 So Agua, it's about 12, 13,000 feet above sea level. 75 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:10,200 It's about three to six miles away from Antigua, which one of the places we visited. 76 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:15,520 And the last eruption happened between 10,000 and 80,000 years ago. 77 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:18,120 And like I said, Fuego, it's still active. 78 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:24,200 As a matter of fact, the last eruption was like May of this year. 79 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:26,520 So that's scary. 80 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:28,840 And that's about 10 miles west of Antigua. 81 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:34,560 The highest point is about 12,362 feet above sea level. 82 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:39,200 And then you have the one that we're going to talk about in another episode that we scale, 83 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:40,200 Pacaya. 84 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:43,280 It's about 19 miles southwest of Guatemala City. 85 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:47,160 I believe that's the closest one to Guatemala City. 86 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,320 And it last erupted in 2021. 87 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:51,680 But it's still active. 88 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:55,720 It still has lava flows from time to time, but it's not erupting. 89 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,720 You see the vents going. 90 00:03:57,720 --> 00:03:58,720 Yeah. 91 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:02,920 You can see the smoke all times of day and all times of night. 92 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:04,400 I call it heavy breathing. 93 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:05,400 Heavy breathing. 94 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:13,440 And then that final volcano, it hadn't erupted since 1924. 95 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:19,760 And there was another one in 27 and then another in 1972. 96 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:26,440 And it has two peaks and it's, I believe, the tallest of the four volcanoes. 97 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:27,440 La Cotanango. 98 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:28,440 Yeah. 99 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:30,200 La Cotanango. 100 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:36,000 So now that we've landed in Guatemala City and we've taken in this amazing view from 101 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:42,080 the plane, we have to get on another plane because we're going to Flores, which is the 102 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:48,400 jump off point to our first destination, the Takao National Park. 103 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:54,760 So when you get to Guatemala City, we get on this small little plane. 104 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,120 It's like terrifying plane. 105 00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:01,200 It's like one seat on the left side, two seats on the right side. 106 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:04,280 It's like a sardine can with wings. 107 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:07,840 It's basically a little bit larger than a private jet. 108 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:08,840 Really? 109 00:05:08,840 --> 00:05:09,840 It is. 110 00:05:09,840 --> 00:05:11,240 It felt really small to me. 111 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:12,240 It was. 112 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:13,240 It was small. 113 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:14,240 I was terrified. 114 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:15,240 Private jets are small. 115 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:16,240 Yeah. 116 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:17,240 It's just a little bit larger. 117 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:18,240 It just felt so unstable. 118 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:19,240 I was terrified. 119 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:20,240 I was terrified. 120 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:25,640 We had to walk out the airport onto the tarmac to get on the plane. 121 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:26,640 I'm like, what are we doing? 122 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:27,640 We going back in time? 123 00:05:27,640 --> 00:05:31,720 Tell them about how tiny it was on the inside. 124 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,160 I'm only like 5'10", 5'11". 125 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,320 My head was hitting the ceiling. 126 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:37,320 I was walking through, boom, boom. 127 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:39,680 I'm like, oh my God. 128 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:40,680 It's small. 129 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:44,160 I was like, my knees, the seats are small because they're small people. 130 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:46,760 The Gualamans are small people. 131 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:50,120 My knees were all in my chest. 132 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:52,960 I had no room to do anything. 133 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:58,440 It was my first experience getting a seatbelt extender because I'm shapely. 134 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:00,440 I have hips and everything. 135 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:05,840 I fit in a regular Delta American Airlines seat. 136 00:06:05,840 --> 00:06:07,760 American seat. 137 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:13,440 With no extender or anything because I don't really have a gut or anything. 138 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,840 Sitting on that plane was very humbling for me. 139 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:19,840 It was like, wow. 140 00:06:19,840 --> 00:06:21,800 Wow. 141 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:23,080 I was getting scared. 142 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,960 I didn't know what a seat extender was. 143 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:27,960 It was like, I didn't know. 144 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:30,280 Then the flight attendant saw me. 145 00:06:30,280 --> 00:06:33,600 He came over with the seatbelt extender. 146 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:34,600 I had to get help. 147 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,840 I did not know what to do with this thing. 148 00:06:38,840 --> 00:06:41,720 They strapped me in and we flew. 149 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:48,160 The reason why we had to change planes like that because going to Flores is not a really 150 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:53,520 busy hub so they don't have major airlines that can take you there. 151 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:56,160 There's no direct flights. 152 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,840 Their airports are not equipped for a 747. 153 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:02,400 That's why you have to take the smaller plane. 154 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:08,280 It's so small, like Derrick was saying, there are no... What's the word I'm looking for? 155 00:07:08,280 --> 00:07:10,880 When you board your plane, you walk down a little ramp. 156 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:11,880 There are no ramps. 157 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:15,760 They just stop on the tarmac and you get out the plane and you- 158 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:19,840 You go to the basement of the airport and you walk out to the tarmac and then you walk 159 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:22,240 up into the plane. 160 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:25,880 You're walking on the landing strip. 161 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:26,880 Yeah. 162 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:27,880 For real. 163 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:28,880 Which is pretty cool. 164 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:29,880 London Rose thought it was amazing. 165 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:30,880 It was. 166 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:31,880 It was pretty fun. 167 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:34,720 I enjoyed that portion of it. 168 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,120 To make that trip, you have really two options. 169 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:41,720 You can fly, take the small plane or you can take a nine hour bus ride. 170 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:42,720 Oh yeah. 171 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:45,120 Oh, but back to the plane. 172 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:52,880 That plane trip dictated our luggage size for the whole trip because they have strict 173 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:55,840 restrictions for that plane. 174 00:07:55,840 --> 00:08:01,040 They only had so many bags that they can hold in the bottom, like your check bag. 175 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:10,040 You can only check one per person and you can only have one carry on per person. 176 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:16,960 The carry on size was like the size of smaller than our standard carry on. 177 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:19,480 It was basically like the pilot's luggage. 178 00:08:19,480 --> 00:08:25,000 If you ever watched the luggage that the pilot walks and it's never four wheels, only on 179 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,720 two and you have the- Yeah. 180 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,960 That's the size that you can have for your carry on. 181 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:31,840 Like a large backpack. 182 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:33,680 Basically a large backpack. 183 00:08:33,680 --> 00:08:35,920 That's what I had to pull out my stuff in the backpack. 184 00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:39,840 I didn't want to carry extra luggage and then they say, well, it won't fit. 185 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:41,480 Then I had nowhere to put my belongings. 186 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:44,200 That would have been a problem. 187 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:47,040 That was interesting. 188 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:51,400 And wait, that was my first time buying a luggage scale because I had to literally weigh 189 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:56,960 our luggage and I had to take things out because it was like, man, we don't want to- 190 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:57,960 No, no. 191 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,080 We don't want to have this issue in Guatemala. 192 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:01,080 No. 193 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:02,560 Get our luggage left at the airport. 194 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:03,560 It weighs too much. 195 00:09:03,560 --> 00:09:06,600 We don't play with nobody's rules whenever we travel. 196 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:09,760 We don't follow these rules because we don't know the penalty. 197 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:10,760 We sure don't. 198 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:11,760 It might be life in prison. 199 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:12,760 Don't know. 200 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:13,760 So. 201 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:14,760 Yeah. 202 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:24,080 So we take the tiny plane to Flores and we land at their airport and then we had a hostel 203 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:25,080 stay. 204 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:26,080 This is the first time I've ever stayed in a hostel. 205 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:28,720 I think you've done this before, staying in a hostel. 206 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:32,200 And I found that hostel very fun. 207 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:33,200 It was different. 208 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:39,440 They, the lounging area or the patio area, they had a bar, restaurant and at night they 209 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:42,400 played music, they had little parties. 210 00:09:42,400 --> 00:09:45,940 So we had options in that hostel. 211 00:09:45,940 --> 00:09:48,120 They had the private room. 212 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:53,360 They had the apartments and then dorm style hostels. 213 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:57,760 Yeah, so the hostel that we stayed in was Los Amigos hostel. 214 00:09:57,760 --> 00:09:58,760 Okay. 215 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:02,880 And as Derrick said, it was very beautiful. 216 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:05,960 They had paintings, murals everywhere. 217 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:06,960 They had rabbits. 218 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:07,960 Rabbits, cats. 219 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,640 They had a dog, bunch of birds. 220 00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:12,640 It's like a. 221 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:13,640 Turtles. 222 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:15,520 A hostel with a zoo in it, a petting zoo. 223 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:16,520 Yeah. 224 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:20,720 And cause it was almost like they had like a little mini jungle in the middle. 225 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:24,240 There was lots of birds and things in there. 226 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:26,760 And we had a private room with a private bath. 227 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:33,040 As you know, with hostels, you could be in a room with a bunch of strangers with no restroom. 228 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:34,600 Your restroom might be down the hall. 229 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:36,240 It's a public restroom. 230 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:37,240 Yeah. 231 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:39,160 Public restroom, public shower. 232 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:41,960 You just, in a hostel, you're really just getting a bed. 233 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:42,960 Pretty much. 234 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:43,960 Yeah. 235 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:47,680 But we booked a private room, private bath and our room was beautiful. 236 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:48,680 Yes, it was. 237 00:10:48,680 --> 00:10:51,880 And we had, we had three beds. 238 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:52,880 Right? 239 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:53,880 We had three beds. 240 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:54,880 Yeah, everyone had their own bed. 241 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:55,880 Yeah. 242 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:56,880 And which worked out great. 243 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:00,280 Which worked out great cause we didn't have to wrestle with London Rose. 244 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:01,280 No. 245 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:03,280 She's a wild sleeper. 246 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:04,280 Kicking people. 247 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:06,280 She sleep like she crazy. 248 00:11:06,280 --> 00:11:07,280 Yes. 249 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:08,280 Yes. 250 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:11,120 So I remember about this hotel. 251 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:17,360 They had a swing in the lobby and London Rose would get on the swing and I think she almost 252 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,760 hit someone a couple of times cause the swing is right in the walkway. 253 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:23,120 I'm like, who put the swing right here? 254 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:25,120 Terrible location for a swing. 255 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:28,720 The food was good too. 256 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:33,320 They had this bar downstairs. 257 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:34,680 The beverages were good too. 258 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:40,280 I partaked in a beverage or two while you were upstairs and the nightlife, they play 259 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:41,280 music seemed like all night. 260 00:11:41,280 --> 00:11:43,280 I don't know if you recall that. 261 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:44,280 I do. 262 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:47,760 I had to put my headphones on cause they were playing music all night. 263 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:52,400 It felt like it was all night cause we had to get up at what, 3.30 in the morning to 264 00:11:52,400 --> 00:12:00,200 take this ride to our, to call sunrise tour where you almost got us mauled to death. 265 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:01,640 Stop it. 266 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:02,640 Stop it. 267 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,680 So we get there, we enjoy the hostel for a little bit cause we have to go to bed because 268 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:07,720 we have an early day. 269 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:15,760 We have a bus picking us up at 3.30 AM to make an hour ride to this national park. 270 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:20,920 I believe you booked the ride through the hotel, the hostel. 271 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:21,920 Okay. 272 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:28,440 And so we did that and then we take the ride to Tocco and be sure if you're going to do 273 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:33,040 the sunrise tour, make sure you have a light cause they don't provide lights. 274 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:34,040 No. 275 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:38,040 The lights that we purchased, we purchased like little miners lights that had a head 276 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:40,680 band and the light sits on your forehead. 277 00:12:40,680 --> 00:12:48,600 So I bought these last minute on Amazon and they came two days, you know, right before 278 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,040 we left, pop them batteries in and we were on the go. 279 00:12:52,040 --> 00:13:00,240 So we also got mosquito repellent, the little, the bands, little bracelets that help, you 280 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:08,640 know, with mosquitoes cause you're literally walking through the jungle and ladies, don't 281 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:09,880 wet your hair down. 282 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,080 It was muggy too. 283 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:17,920 So my hair was all flat iron and beautiful and I'm thinking, Ooh, I'm going to be cute 284 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:20,380 walking through the jungle wrong. 285 00:13:20,380 --> 00:13:26,280 I had a full fro 15 minutes into this tour because it was misty. 286 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:27,280 It was muggy. 287 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:29,440 And it's April and it's still kind of muggy. 288 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:30,840 The humidity is thick. 289 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:31,840 Yeah. 290 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:35,440 It was mist and it was, it wasn't exactly raining. 291 00:13:35,440 --> 00:13:36,440 What was that? 292 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:38,200 I don't know what you call that, but it was wet. 293 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:41,120 Fog mist, humidity. 294 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:42,120 It was thick. 295 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:50,680 It was like really, I recall at like five o'clock in the morning, it was just too thick and muggy 296 00:13:50,680 --> 00:13:52,080 for it to be there early in the day. 297 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:56,320 The sun wasn't even up yet, but once again, we were in the jungle. 298 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:03,760 So when you get there, you meet at the meeting location, you meet your tour guide and then 299 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:08,280 you take off on this mile and a half, well it was a half a mile walk to the temple where 300 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:09,280 you're going to watch the sunrise. 301 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:11,240 That was a half a mile walk. 302 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:13,120 It felt longer than that because it's in the dark. 303 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:14,120 So you're terrified. 304 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:15,120 Yes. 305 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:18,680 And you are walking in the dark and I meant that, keep in mind you're in a group. 306 00:14:18,680 --> 00:14:19,680 Yes. 307 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:25,680 And I don't know why I do this to myself and my family, but I book these tours and be forgetting 308 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:31,720 that you need to be in shape or you need to at least plan for these trips. 309 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:34,640 So you know, because I wasn't ready. 310 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:35,840 I wasn't ready for this walk. 311 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,400 Because we assumed, we knew it was a tour, we assumed that like they were going to shuttle 312 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:40,400 us to this spot. 313 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:41,400 Yeah. 314 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:44,160 In my brain, I'm thinking, oh, we're going to jump, you know, we're going to meet our 315 00:14:44,160 --> 00:14:48,400 tour guide right here in point A, then we're going to take a couple of steps and we're 316 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:52,320 going to be into the park and we're going to be at our spot. 317 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:58,480 No, had no idea you dropping us off at the edge of the jungle and we have to walk through 318 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:01,840 the jungle to get to these temples. 319 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:08,320 And we're talking about stepping over tree roots, going up hills, stepping over logs. 320 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:09,440 It is for real. 321 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:10,840 You hope it's a log. 322 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:16,480 You hope it, oh my goodness, because now keep in mind, we're being very generous and I don't 323 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:20,040 know why people don't talk about this on social media because that's why I found out about 324 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:21,040 the call. 325 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:22,400 I'm just going to leave this stuff out. 326 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:27,440 Is that you're literally outside in the elements with wild animals. 327 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:28,440 Predators. 328 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:33,560 You know, we get like a brief talk, oh, you know, be careful of the snake and- 329 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:36,680 It said be careful, watch out for the snakes, they kind of look like sticks. 330 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:37,680 I'm like, what? 331 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:41,040 And you know, we're like, okay, yeah, yes sir. 332 00:15:41,040 --> 00:15:43,520 But why are we walking? 333 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:45,560 Then all of a sudden he says, everybody freeze. 334 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:46,560 Freeze. 335 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:47,560 Do you see that? 336 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:48,560 We're like, what? 337 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:52,000 No, I saw it because I was standing right beside him. 338 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:55,200 And then Derek was right beside him and I'm like, what? 339 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:56,200 Derek said- 340 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:57,920 It's a jaguar. 341 00:15:57,920 --> 00:15:58,920 It was a jaguar. 342 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:00,520 And he was like, did you see that? 343 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:01,760 I'm like, yeah, I saw that. 344 00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:04,320 I said, we're going to go that way, we're going to change direction. 345 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:07,120 Like, we'll give him a moment to pass through. 346 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:08,120 Yeah. 347 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:11,160 Now, I want you to think about it. 348 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:15,640 Okay, like picture yourself. 349 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:20,840 It was like if you're going through a McDonald's drive-through and you at the menu bar, the 350 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:25,960 jaguar would have been about as far as where the first window- 351 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:26,960 Window one. 352 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:27,960 Window one. 353 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:30,720 That's how close it was to us. 354 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:33,680 There's no fence separating us. 355 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:35,240 It's right there on our path. 356 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:36,600 There's no firearms. 357 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:39,600 There's no Jaguar be-away spray. 358 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:42,120 You are- I didn't see no rocks. 359 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:43,120 There was nothing. 360 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:44,120 You were defenseless. 361 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:47,400 An ambitious soul could have walked up and pet this thing. 362 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:49,600 That's how close it was. 363 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:53,360 And that's the moment- That I realized he was trying to kill me. 364 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:58,960 I thought, I realized that I be doing the most sometimes, like, woman, you got to calm 365 00:16:58,960 --> 00:17:02,440 down because this could have went left real quick. 366 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:04,560 Thank goodness nobody was harmed. 367 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:07,680 Thank goodness he ate well the night before or just finished hunting. 368 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:09,600 Because it was about 20 of us in that group. 369 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:11,200 He could have picked us all off. 370 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:14,920 And I was in the back because like I said, I wasn't in the best of shapes. 371 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:20,120 So no matter how hard I tried, because I don't know what it was about our tour guide, but 372 00:17:20,120 --> 00:17:23,000 that man was walking like he was in a marathon. 373 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:24,000 I'm like, bro. 374 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:25,600 That man was running through the jungle. 375 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:27,240 I'm like, what are you doing, bro? 376 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:28,240 It's not going nowhere. 377 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:30,040 I just could not keep up. 378 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:35,680 And it was just like, a lot of times I ended up in the back of the group and I look behind 379 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:36,680 me and it's pitch black. 380 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:37,680 Pitch black. 381 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:38,680 And you know I'm scared. 382 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:39,680 I'm already scared of the dark. 383 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:40,680 And I don't care. 384 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:41,680 Who knows? 385 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:42,680 I'm afraid of the dark. 386 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:43,680 I sleep with a night light. 387 00:17:43,680 --> 00:17:44,680 It's a real thing. 388 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:47,680 But you want to do a sunrise tour in the middle of the jungle. 389 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:52,960 But in my brain, I don't know why I thought that there was going to be some kind of spotlight 390 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:53,960 or something. 391 00:17:53,960 --> 00:18:01,600 Like I wasn't expecting pitch black with a tour guide that was going to be Speedy Gonzales 392 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:03,280 and during through this thing. 393 00:18:03,280 --> 00:18:05,280 I'm like, bro, can we slow down? 394 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:07,960 We got a little kid in the group, which was London Rose. 395 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:08,960 He didn't care. 396 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:09,960 He did not care. 397 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:10,960 He had somewhere to be. 398 00:18:10,960 --> 00:18:13,360 He wanted to make sure we got to that sunrise. 399 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:14,360 Yes. 400 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:19,240 He made sure that we made it to that temple in time for the sunrise. 401 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:22,080 He was on a schedule. 402 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:25,560 And I say temple, but it's actually a pyramid. 403 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:29,600 If you've seen Apocalypto, the movie, it's one of those temples. 404 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:30,600 Temple temples, yeah. 405 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:31,600 Yeah. 406 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:32,600 It's literally identical. 407 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:33,600 I wonder if they filmed that there. 408 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:34,600 I thought they did. 409 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:35,600 We have to do some digging. 410 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:36,600 Yeah, we should look that up. 411 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:46,080 But let me tell you, so we finally get to the temple that we were going to go up because 412 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:49,760 you got to keep in mind these pyramids were built. 413 00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:53,160 In the sixth century BC. 414 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,040 It's a long time. 415 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:57,040 Sixth century. 416 00:18:57,040 --> 00:18:58,040 Okay. 417 00:18:58,040 --> 00:18:59,040 BC. 418 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:03,040 It's a part of the Mayan Empire. 419 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:04,040 Yes. 420 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:07,120 It's an actual city. 421 00:19:07,120 --> 00:19:10,320 So there are some temples you cannot touch. 422 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:11,320 Yeah. 423 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,880 And there are some that you- 424 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:14,880 Have access to. 425 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,880 Have access to. 426 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:21,840 None of them you can climb up them, I don't think anymore. 427 00:19:21,840 --> 00:19:25,960 Not anymore, but when we were there, we were able to climb that temple. 428 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:27,560 One side. 429 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:34,920 But since then, people have lost their minds when it comes to college, start taking artifacts 430 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:37,920 and breaking things of that nature. 431 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:42,680 So they've kind of limited your access to certain temples. 432 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:49,600 So you can't really go up them anymore, but the ones that we went up, they had built wooden 433 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:55,800 stairs alongside of it so you can climb those stairs, which I fell- 434 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:56,800 Was a hike. 435 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:58,880 It was a challenge for me. 436 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:04,960 And once again, I need to really hit the gym hard before I go on these trips because they 437 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:06,560 are legit workouts. 438 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:10,760 And have on the right shoes because we never have on the right shoes. 439 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:12,880 I didn't have on the right shoes. 440 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,160 I have on the right, and I made sure London Rose had on the right shoes. 441 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:19,000 I had on running shoes and proper shoes for that hike. 442 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:21,080 I had my little arch support in there. 443 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:25,960 I was good to go, but my thing was it was just, it was the steps. 444 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:31,640 You couldn't tell me we didn't have like 17,000 steps before the sun even rose. 445 00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:32,640 We probably did. 446 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:38,400 We probably had about 25,000 steps before we even made it to the temple. 447 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:45,400 It was a nice walk, but I will say this, getting to the top of the temple, you're up there- 448 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:46,400 It was worth it. 449 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,720 And you're above clouds at some point. 450 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:50,720 I mean- 451 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:51,720 You're above the clouds. 452 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:52,720 It was misty. 453 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,200 You're above the canopy of the forest. 454 00:20:54,200 --> 00:21:00,320 Yes, you're literally above the canopy of the forest. 455 00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:10,080 So we're sitting there in the dark waiting, and all of a sudden you could hear the jungle 456 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:11,080 come alive. 457 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:13,320 It's like all at once. 458 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:14,860 They just all wake up. 459 00:21:14,860 --> 00:21:17,400 You hear the howler monkeys going. 460 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,280 You hear the birds chirping. 461 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:26,560 And we were fortunate enough to even see a quetzal bird fly past us. 462 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:29,680 The quetzal is the national bird of Guatemala. 463 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:33,680 It's a beautiful, beautiful bird. 464 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:35,760 It was just the most magical thing. 465 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:43,240 As we're sitting there, then the sun rays are starting to peek through the clouds. 466 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:48,840 It's just slowly getting louder and brighter. 467 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:55,600 Everyone is waking back up, pulling out their phones and taking pictures. 468 00:21:55,600 --> 00:22:03,360 After a while, when the fog clears, you can start seeing the tops of the other temples 469 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:04,360 in the park. 470 00:22:04,360 --> 00:22:05,360 It's just so magical. 471 00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:08,360 Our guide was like, wait a minute, just hold on, hold on. 472 00:22:08,360 --> 00:22:12,680 It'll just blow away, and then you'll see the rest of the monuments. 473 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:16,760 And then clockwork, it just all starts to dissipate. 474 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:22,040 And then you can see the top of these monuments that have been around since the 6th century 475 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:23,040 BC. 476 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:25,080 And they're still standing. 477 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:26,720 Still standing. 478 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,400 And we sat there for about a good hour waiting for them. 479 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,120 Maybe a little longer than that. 480 00:22:32,120 --> 00:22:38,000 And people pulled out snacks, and we ate up at the top of this temple. 481 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:44,240 And after a while, the sun really said hello, and that heat hit us. 482 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:45,240 Stop baking it. 483 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:49,720 And then the two guys are like, all right, guys, it's time to go down and see the rest 484 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:50,720 of the park. 485 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:51,720 Let's get out of the sunlight. 486 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:56,880 So if you ever come to Tikal, make sure you have on sunscreen and plenty of water. 487 00:22:56,880 --> 00:23:01,640 Water, snacks, sunscreen, proper shoes. 488 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,120 That's our advice. 489 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:10,640 And then we leave the sunrise temple, and we just tour the rest of the park. 490 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:16,880 And we go to the Grand Plaza and then Temple One. 491 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:21,240 It's where, I think he said where they did their games. 492 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:22,600 They had this Mayan game. 493 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,560 He explained it. 494 00:23:24,560 --> 00:23:30,080 I can't recall the game, but it seemed like it was a duel to the death type game. 495 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,160 So I would have bought a ticket to that. 496 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,400 It's like a cross between football and soccer in a way. 497 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,680 It's a cross of all sports, it seemed like. 498 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:39,920 But it seemed like it was a blood sport. 499 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:47,440 Yeah, we forgot to mention that one of the Star Wars films, the, what was it? 500 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:49,600 Oh, now you're gonna be in a Star Wars movie. 501 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:57,160 Tikal was actually the Rebel Alliance base in episode four of Star Wars, A New Hope. 502 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,400 So Star Wars, that's your thing. 503 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:00,400 There we go. 504 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:01,400 That's your thing, Star Wars. 505 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:02,400 Sorry, showing my nerd side. 506 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:03,400 You're nerding out, baby. 507 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:06,800 You're nerding out. 508 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:11,480 But then there, we forget to talk about there is a cost to enter the park. 509 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:12,480 Yes. 510 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:14,480 What was it, 50? 511 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:19,680 Okay, so just regular adults fee for nationals. 512 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,640 No, we're not national, internationals. 513 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:22,640 Yeah, foreigners. 514 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:23,640 We're not internationals. 515 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:24,640 It was about $20. 516 00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,280 So you have to have your passport. 517 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,600 So make sure you have your passport on you. 518 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:30,600 And that's $20. 519 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:37,720 Now to do this sunrise tour, that was an additional 30, about $33. 520 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,720 So 12 and under free. 521 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:41,720 Free. 522 00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:48,840 And I do believe we did have to pay for London Rose's sunrise tour, but her entrance into 523 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,000 the park was free. 524 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,240 Gotcha. 525 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:58,840 And then we, you booked the travel there through Viator, right? 526 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,680 The travel from our hotel to the park. 527 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:09,440 No, I actually booked the transport from our hotel through, from our hostel through the 528 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:10,440 hostel. 529 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:17,440 They had a travel agency in the hostel and we booked that through them. 530 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:18,440 Gotcha, gotcha. 531 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:19,440 So. 532 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,480 Which I recommend. 533 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:26,640 If you're not staying in the jungle lodge, which is like right there on the property, 534 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:31,040 I'll talk about the jungle lodge in a second, that is one of my regrets, you guys, not staying 535 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:32,160 in the jungle lodge. 536 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:33,160 That's a big regret. 537 00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:35,960 The jungle lodge is exactly what it sounds like. 538 00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:36,960 It is a lodge. 539 00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:39,120 On the jungle. 540 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:42,200 But it's, but it is, it's high end. 541 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:43,200 Yes. 542 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:44,200 It's a luxury hotel. 543 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:45,200 It is a luxury hostel. 544 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:46,200 In the jungle. 545 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:47,200 Yes. 546 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:52,220 Big soaking tubs, plush couches, beautiful beds. 547 00:25:52,220 --> 00:26:00,800 The reason why I chose not to do the beautiful jungle lodge is because they said at 10 o'clock 548 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:01,800 they cut the power. 549 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:02,800 They cut the power. 550 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:04,880 And we know she, she needs her power. 551 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:06,360 I have to have that nightlight y'all. 552 00:26:06,360 --> 00:26:07,560 It's a whole thing. 553 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:08,880 You want to explain? 554 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,840 No power, no TV. 555 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:19,560 So they cut the power because it's in a national park and they try to conserve energy because 556 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,280 it was created by conservatives. 557 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:23,280 So not conservatives. 558 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:24,280 I mean, what? 559 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:25,280 Conservationists. 560 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:26,280 Conservationists. 561 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,460 So they want to maintain that at the park. 562 00:26:29,460 --> 00:26:31,520 So that's why they cut the power at 10. 563 00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,460 Now you still have access to some power. 564 00:26:34,460 --> 00:26:43,280 You have enough power to power a ceiling fan, a TV, not a TV, a nightlight and a power plug. 565 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:44,280 That's all you get. 566 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:49,640 Now, if you want to watch a movie, you can go to the conference room prior 10, 8 to 10 567 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:55,120 PM to watch a movie, but you can't watch it in your room because there are no TVs. 568 00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:57,700 So that's why it's done that way. 569 00:26:57,700 --> 00:27:02,200 But it's still a high end luxury hotel. 570 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:09,440 And like, there's like no glass, like glass windows, like a standard to have like, I forgot. 571 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:10,440 Shutters maybe. 572 00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:17,720 Yeah, I forgot how they explained it, but it's, it's beautiful for one, but it's not 573 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,720 your standard shut the window locket type thing. 574 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:23,960 And they have like mosquito nets on your beds. 575 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:24,960 You're one with nature. 576 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:25,960 You're one with nature. 577 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,080 You know what, you know what it reminds me of? 578 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,480 If you're into Twilight, it's when- 579 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,880 No, not. 580 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:35,920 When Edward- 581 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:36,920 Is that the wolf guy? 582 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:38,800 No, that's the vampire guy. 583 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:44,840 When he got married, why can't I think of the, I can't think of the girl's name, but- 584 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:47,080 Is it similar to interview with the vampire? 585 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,080 Stop getting off the, no. 586 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:50,080 I'm sorry. 587 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:51,080 Okay. 588 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:57,360 When Edward and his, I can't even think of the, the, the lead of the book movie, that 589 00:27:57,360 --> 00:27:58,360 girl- 590 00:27:58,360 --> 00:27:59,360 Oh, Count Dracula. 591 00:27:59,360 --> 00:28:02,720 When they, when they got together and they, they had their honeymoon and they were on 592 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:07,420 that Island and that their bed had the mosquito net and everything on it. 593 00:28:07,420 --> 00:28:09,120 That's what the room reminds you of. 594 00:28:09,120 --> 00:28:10,120 Okay, I'm sorry. 595 00:28:10,120 --> 00:28:11,120 Okay. 596 00:28:11,120 --> 00:28:12,120 I can't keep the nerd in sometimes. 597 00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:14,960 I'm going to have to watch Twilight. 598 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,200 Which one is that, two, three or four? 599 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,520 I think it's, I think that happens in three. 600 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,480 Is that the return of the Lichens? 601 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,080 Stop, Derrick. 602 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:27,360 Anyway, it's a very beautiful room. 603 00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:28,680 And they have mosquitoes there. 604 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:35,400 So, so I told Derrick, I said, if we ever come back, we should bring our, our candle, 605 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:36,400 the- 606 00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:37,400 Oh yeah. 607 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:38,400 I can't think of it. 608 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:39,400 Why am I forgetting things today? 609 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,920 The little candle, you put your candle stick in and you carry it around. 610 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,160 The candle that you use to keep mosquitoes and stuff away. 611 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:47,160 Citronella candle. 612 00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:48,160 Yeah. 613 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,440 Can you even carry a Citronella candle somewhere? 614 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:51,920 You probably have to buy it there. 615 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:53,520 I don't know, it's a thought. 616 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:55,400 If they let you bring it. 617 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:56,400 It's a thought. 618 00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,960 Cause you're killing the environment. 619 00:28:58,960 --> 00:28:59,960 I'm not leaving it there. 620 00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:00,960 It's coming with me. 621 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,960 You're killing the insects, which are a part of the circle of life. 622 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:04,960 Oh goodness. 623 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:05,960 I'm just saying. 624 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,600 So that was the thing. 625 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,200 So that was my regret. 626 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,080 And the next time we go- 627 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,040 We stand at least one night at the jungle lodge. 628 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,600 We would do the jungle lodge for one night. 629 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:16,600 For sure. 630 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:17,600 For sure. 631 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:18,600 For one night. 632 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:24,480 So we finished up with Takaul and we head back to our hostel in Flores where you get 633 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,880 a massage, you visit the spa. 634 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:28,360 So this is a different type of hostel. 635 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:30,320 Once again, they have a spa in there. 636 00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:33,360 Most hostels don't have any of that. 637 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,440 So you got the massage. 638 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:42,240 So I got this massage and I'm thinking, I'm going to do her real nice. 639 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:43,240 I'm going to give her like a- 640 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:44,240 A big tip. 641 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:45,240 I had like 56- 642 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:46,240 You're going to haul out. 643 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:47,240 Ketsals in my pocket. 644 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:51,560 And I'm thinking I'm going to give her like 56 quote unquote dollar tip. 645 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,440 You're going to make it rain. 646 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,840 And I'm sitting there and I gave it to her. 647 00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:57,840 She was appreciative. 648 00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:58,840 Can I see? 649 00:29:58,840 --> 00:29:59,840 I said what not. 650 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,120 But then when I thought about it, I was like, wait a minute. 651 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:03,120 I don't think I- 652 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:04,120 Gave her a big tip. 653 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,120 Big enough tip. 654 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:06,120 I don't think I- 655 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:14,400 You gave her 65 cues and you thought you were giving her a big tip and you realized you 656 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:15,400 gave her what? 657 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:16,400 $6? 658 00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:21,720 I gave her $7.21 and I felt really bad after the fact. 659 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:26,680 But you know, I didn't realize that until like later on after we had left. 660 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,360 And I was like, darn it, man. 661 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:31,880 She's probably thinking, oh, you little cheap American. 662 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,880 You know, but I'm really thinking, I'm like, you know, making her- 663 00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:35,880 I don't know. 664 00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:37,920 I just dropped 65 bones for a tip. 665 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:38,920 I really- 666 00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:39,920 I just- 667 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:40,920 You had it later. 668 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:41,920 $3.22. 669 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:46,760 And she did so good, you know, and I don't know. 670 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:47,760 She did a great job with the massage. 671 00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:48,760 I should have calculated- 672 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:49,760 You should have gave her more. 673 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:55,360 Calculated the conversion before I tipped her. 674 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:56,360 Yeah. 675 00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:58,240 So after your massage, you felt so much better. 676 00:30:58,240 --> 00:30:59,240 We were hungry. 677 00:30:59,240 --> 00:31:02,080 We took a toot toot ride. 678 00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:03,080 So a toot toot ride- 679 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:04,080 Toot toot. 680 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:05,080 Yep. 681 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:10,720 A toot toot ride from the hostel to the little shopping plaza they have across the bridge. 682 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:16,880 So a toot toot is like a scooter with a buggy attached to it, so to speak, with doors. 683 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:17,880 It is. 684 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:21,520 It's like a golf cart with extra seats. 685 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:23,640 It's a toot toot is literally- 686 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:24,640 How do you explain? 687 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,080 It's like a, you know what it puts me in the mind of? 688 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:29,680 Not the teacup ride at the fair. 689 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:30,920 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. 690 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:32,520 But it's one of those little rides- 691 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:33,520 It feels that way. 692 00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:38,000 You have two people sitting in the back and then one person in the front on a bicycle 693 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,800 almost like, but it's a motorcycle. 694 00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:41,800 Now a toot- 695 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:42,800 It's like a motorized tricycle. 696 00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:43,800 Basically. 697 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:51,240 And so a toot toot is only really designed to fit no more than two grown adults. 698 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:52,560 But it was us and- 699 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:56,720 And the man was like, no, no, no, you can fit all three. 700 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:57,720 Get in, get in. 701 00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,680 So my tail get in. 702 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,640 And the door won't close. 703 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,080 And the door would not close because of my hips. 704 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:05,080 Oh my goodness. 705 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:06,800 And he was like, no, no, it's okay. 706 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:07,800 Just hold it. 707 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:08,800 No, no. 708 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,800 First he tried to slam it on you. 709 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:12,680 You're like, okay, okay, okay. 710 00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:13,680 Just hold it. 711 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:14,680 Just hold it. 712 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:15,680 And this guy is balling. 713 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:16,680 He's driving so fast. 714 00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,160 I'm like, if he hit this curb, you're going to fall out. 715 00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:20,160 Yeah. 716 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:25,120 And we're literally riding through town in a toot-toot with the door slightly open and 717 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:26,840 my hip poking out. 718 00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,200 And I'm like holding on for dear life. 719 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,880 And we couldn't do nothing but just kind of laugh about it like why do we do this stuff 720 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:33,880 to ourselves? 721 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:34,880 Why? 722 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:39,360 And then all of that because we just really, really, really wanted to go to Pizza Hut. 723 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:40,360 Pizza Hut. 724 00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:41,360 Because that's what we knew. 725 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:42,360 Yep. 726 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:43,920 Because I wasn't feeling brave. 727 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,840 I didn't know if they ate kui or anything. 728 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:48,720 That kui is guinea pig. 729 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:49,720 And I'm- 730 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:50,720 That's a Peruvian thing. 731 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,160 That is, but there's other countries that eat kui too. 732 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,280 So I didn't know and I wasn't feeling brave. 733 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:56,280 No kui. 734 00:32:56,280 --> 00:33:01,040 And so basically we just wanted to eat something that we know and we went to this Pizza Hut. 735 00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:03,760 But let me tell y'all this. 736 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:04,760 That was the best pizza. 737 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:09,960 Now I'm not going to say the best pizza because- 738 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,680 But it very well may be the best Pizza Hut. 739 00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:13,680 Pizza Hut, yes. 740 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:14,920 Because Italy has the best pizza. 741 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:16,360 I got to put that out there. 742 00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,440 It may be the best Pizza Hut we have ever had. 743 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:20,840 But it was delicious. 744 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:24,880 It was rivaling the pizza over in Italy. 745 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,600 It was unexpected pizza pleasure. 746 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:28,720 It was so good. 747 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:32,640 I was like, what is this stuff imported from another country? 748 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,920 Because this ain't the Pizza Hut that we accustomed to. 749 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:35,920 It's good. 750 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,640 You can tell the meat was fresh, the dough was fresh, the sauce was fresh. 751 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,440 The sauce was amazing. 752 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:41,440 I just knew it. 753 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,920 The cheese was right, the bread. 754 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:48,000 You couldn't tell me that if we were to peek back there, there was going to be somebody 755 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:52,440 over at VAT of sauce and seasoning. 756 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:53,840 This is not fast food. 757 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:54,840 No. 758 00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:59,520 It took a while for our pizza to come out, was let us know that they were actually- 759 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:00,520 Making pizza. 760 00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:01,520 Making the pizza. 761 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:02,520 It was so good. 762 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:03,520 It was so good. 763 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:04,520 It was delicious. 764 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:08,200 The best Pizza Hut I've ever had. 765 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:11,040 That's saying a lot. 766 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:13,440 Pizza Hut's not, in my opinion, not that great. 767 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:18,440 But this Pizza Hut tasted like gourmet pizza. 768 00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:21,680 It wasn't your average run of the mill Pizza Hut. 769 00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:24,320 Don't know what it was, but it was fantastic. 770 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:25,320 It was made with care. 771 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:26,320 It was made with love. 772 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:27,320 Made with love. 773 00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:28,320 Like my mama's pancakes. 774 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:29,320 Oh my gosh. 775 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:38,280 We were sitting there looking out the window just watching the people. 776 00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:41,880 It was just the bravery. 777 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,280 It was a lot of Mopads out there. 778 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:50,440 We would see people that have four and five people, and I'm not exaggerating when I say 779 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:55,120 this, four and five people stacked on the back of Mopads. 780 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,920 A mother holding her child in her arms. 781 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,040 You had one in the front, one in the back, and then a man driving. 782 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:02,040 Driving. 783 00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:03,040 Yeah. 784 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:04,040 There's three people on the back. 785 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,480 He got someone on the handlebars. 786 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:10,400 It was like, we're going to see a disaster going back. 787 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:11,400 But there were no accidents. 788 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:12,400 No accidents. 789 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,000 They were just weaving in and out of traffic. 790 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,000 No helmets. 791 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,000 No helmets, no leather coats, nothing. 792 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:20,000 Nothing. 793 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:26,520 And every now and then I noticed someone riding a horse. 794 00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:27,520 Yeah. 795 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:28,520 I saw the horses. 796 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:29,520 Down the street. 797 00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:30,520 Yeah. 798 00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:31,520 Which was just like, wow. 799 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:32,520 You know? 800 00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,520 I don't know if you saw this at the Pizza Hut. 801 00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,680 There was a gentleman there, him and his wife. 802 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,040 He had armed security. 803 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:44,000 He had two guys downstairs with guns and two guys upstairs with him with lunch. 804 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,000 What? 805 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,000 Yeah. 806 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,000 Yeah. 807 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,000 While we were eating. 808 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,200 I thought that must be important because I saw the guys with their suits on, the little 809 00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:56,640 Guatemalan guys, suits on, and they had the guns strapped around their chest. 810 00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:59,960 I was like, he must be like the president or something. 811 00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:02,240 And then I go to the bathroom, which was downstairs. 812 00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:06,240 This is a two level Pizza Hut, so the bathroom is downstairs. 813 00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:08,600 And he has two guys guarding the door. 814 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:09,600 To the bathroom? 815 00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:13,640 No, the Pizza Hut to get in with their guns, with their AKs. 816 00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:15,640 I don't know how you missed that. 817 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:16,640 I remember you mentioning that. 818 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:17,640 I didn't. 819 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,880 I was just so into my pizza. 820 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:20,880 Into your pizza. 821 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:21,880 I didn't even notice. 822 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:27,120 So they got up right before we did, and I just watched these guys walk out. 823 00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:29,200 And they walked out like military styles. 824 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,080 Two guys went out to survey the perimeter. 825 00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:35,320 Two guys stayed with him, and then they walked their way to the car. 826 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:36,640 They drove off in two cars. 827 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:37,840 So he was in one car. 828 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:42,080 Two guys were in the one car with him, and they had another car lead in the pack. 829 00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:45,280 And I was like, that guy must be important or dangerous. 830 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:46,800 I don't know which one. 831 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,640 But I had never seen that before. 832 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:50,640 In Pizza Hut. 833 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:51,640 In Pizza Hut. 834 00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,360 Like no one better than I except me. 835 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:57,400 So this must be just normal. 836 00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:02,040 Or maybe he's like the mayor or the governor of that part of the country. 837 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:03,040 I don't know. 838 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:04,040 Interesting. 839 00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:06,680 So I thought I'd point that out. 840 00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,560 That caught my eye. 841 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:13,240 So after our great Pizza Hut, we had a long day. 842 00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:17,400 We did the sunrise tour in the middle of the jungle. 843 00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,440 We almost became food for Jaguar. 844 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:21,440 We're just tired. 845 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:26,360 And we have to get on the plane in the morning to finish the second leg of the Guatemala 846 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:27,920 tour. 847 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,920 So we just turned it in. 848 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,600 I'm beat. 849 00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:37,200 And it's for good reason because we took a lot of steps that day. 850 00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:38,200 We did what? 851 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:39,200 About 30? 852 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:40,200 No. 853 00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:41,200 About 25,000 steps. 854 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:43,320 But we're tired and it's time to go. 855 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,760 And so the next day we're getting on the plane. 856 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:53,140 We're going back to Guatemala City to go to Antigua. 857 00:37:53,140 --> 00:38:00,680 So join us next time as we talk about our adventures in Antigua. 858 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:01,680 Later. 859 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:09,760 If you made it this far, you are the true champion. 860 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:14,080 You could have been anywhere, doing anything, but you instead chose to spend your time with 861 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:15,080 us. 862 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,360 And for that, we say thank you. 863 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:18,360 I'm Derek. 864 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:19,360 I'm Akilah. 865 00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:21,680 Rate, like and subscribe. 866 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,000 Do good, be good. 867 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:40,360 Until next time.