• Acatenango

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    Fuego is a volcano that’s almost always having little eruptions.

    Next to it is Acatenango

    From Acatenango there are good views of Fuego.

    We have finally learned our lesson regarding hiking so we took a 4×4 up.

    So we only had to walk through the clouds for 45 minutes.

    Fuego is very noisy.

    Sometimes it makes loud booms like fireworks followed by thuds as the big rocks settle.

    Other times it just rumbles like thunder.

    There are nice views of the sleepy volcano too, but that’s less exciting.

    There is a lot of ash blowing around up here, but only because it is cold.

    The ash from the volcano blows the other way.

    We will be spending the night up here so we can see the volcano in the dark.

    We have a luxury tent for 9 people.


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  • Chetumal

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    We walked around Chetumal.

    Matt protected the city from pirate invasion.

    We watched an exciting ball game.

    Matt wouldn’t let Kerri go down the slide.

    Or go skating, even though no one here knows how to skate so she would probably be the best.


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  • More Uxmal

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    Look, we were there too!

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    Even when the background was blurry!

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    This is Matt in front of the building with all the doves nesting in the roof, which is called the house of the doves.

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    This is the governor’s house

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    This is some ruins

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    These stairs make the most convincing chirping noise we’ve ever heard when you clap in front of them. Kerri tried to clap Jingle Bells.

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    The big temple makes a chirping noise too. Any solid stone staircase will actually make a chirping noise.

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    But they think the Mayans may have done it on purpose, whereas all the ones in Europe were by accident.

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    This is another building that was named by another explorer who didn’t have a clue what the building was actually for.

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    We stood in front of the big pyramid.

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    Iguanas stand in front of things too.

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    Birds stand on top of things

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    But vultures don’t chirp, so the vulture wasn’t making the noise, the stairs were. They do sound remarkably like a quetzal though.

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    Iguanas sometimes sit on top of buildings too.

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    This tree has an eye.

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  • Uxmal

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    This is a really cool pyramid

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    It’s one of the only ones with round corners

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    It’s really tall and pokes out over the trees.

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    These gods have elephant noses.

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    Matt doesn’t know what this is.

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    This is the ball court

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    They had to hit a solid rubber ball through that hoop

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    Uxmal was abandoned in the 10th century, 600 years before there were pirates in the Caribbean

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    But clearly these ones time traveled.

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    Kerri doesn’t know what this is.

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    This building had a bunch of birds nesting in the holes at the top.

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    We don’t remember what this was either. You can tell we learned a lot.

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    This is the building that had turtles all the way around the top.

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    This is a bug.

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