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Anthropology

sinkingfeeling

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2. We visited Tikal almost 35 years ago. Then you had to hire a

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Sep 30, 2021, 07:57 AM

Sep 2021

driver to take you over rough, muddy roads. The 'hotel' had no running water or electricity. There were no guides except local kids, who would point and sell you a bottle of water. We climbed all over the pyramids...there were ladders to reach the tops. Thank goodness my son was with us as he has an uncanny sense of direction or I might still be living with the howler monkeys.

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