An Island of Flowers

For our next journey, we headed to Flores. It is an island on Lake Petén Itzá that is nothing but hotels and restaurants (not many flowers to be found). It is where most of the people going to Tikal stay. It is nice and relaxing, very small, not too busy, but very HOT! Because it is hot, most of the hotels have A/C, which is not common in Guatemala. It is a great place to watch the sunrise and sunset.

sunrise at Flores

We didn’t do too much except walk around and have supper, oh yeah, and swim. The water was clear as a whistle (whatever that means)! The next day, we got up early and watched the sunrise over the lake! Then we headed to Tikal and stayed a night there. We then returned to Flores the next day and went on a boat ride around the lake before we headed to the bus station for a long night back to Guatemala City.