The Adventures of Kerri & Matt

We couldn’t take any pictures in the Actun Tunichil Muknal Caves, but they were really cool so we’re making a post anyway with random internet pictures.

We had to swim to get into the cave.

Then it was really dark. We had headlamps, but this is Kerri’s drawing of when the headlamps were off.

Some places we had to swim, and some places we had to wade, and some places we had to climb.

There were stalactites and stalagmites everywhere.

And lots of ancient pottery

And a few skeletons from sacrifice victims. This one is covered in crystals because water runs over it when water levels are high.

On the way out we had to take a very tight waterslide in the dark. We had to bend our head at a weird angle to fit into the crack to get in.

Xunantunich is a ruin site near San Ignacio

It’s not very big

Their ball court looks like it must have been for children

We’ve seen a lot of stone tools, but this is the first stone wrench.

They had a weird rounded pyramidy building

And some other buildings

This one is very steep

This one had a courtyard

There are more buildings down the hill

The walls are almost as tall as Matt

He has to go through the middle of the doorway

Except he didn’t because there were bats inside

There were lots of little rooms

Kerri’s the king of the castle