Sunday, January 24, 2016

Semuc Champey - January 21st & 22nd

          Waking up early sure isn't easy! Even though everybody struggled to get out bed we all had a sense of excitement in our eyes. As we all slept on the long bus ride, waking up every few hours to use the restroom and eat, we arrived at a small town were we got off the bus and got on a large truck and traveled up and down a rocky mountain till we got to our hotel. Once we hopped out the back of the truck we went to go check out our huts we were going to stay in. Half stayed in the top room and the other half stayed in the lower room. Since we got to the the hotel late in the day and there was so much we wanted to do, but we could only swim in the river just under the hotel. As everybody headed to bed we all couldn't wait for the next day.

          The next day is when the fun began. It started after breakfast when the those on the lower level were going back to their room and found a tarantula crawling out from under one of the beds. After a few minutes of screaming we finally got it out of the room and lets just say not a lot of us got very much sleep that night. After that we took a hike up 800 steps to get to a place where the view was unbelievable. Then we hiked down a little ways to a river where we jumped, slid, and swam to different beautiful spots in the river where we had great time. After we hiked back to the hotel where we had lunch everybody got even more excited for the our activity: hiking through a cave filled with water and only candles for light. As we made our way through the cave we were joined by two other groups, one couple from France and the other from Australia. Going up an down ladders, over rocks, swimming through water and even climbing up a small waterfall. Once the tour was over and our candles almost burnt out we were told to grab our inner tubes for a relaxing float down the river. When we reached the end we walked back to our hotel where we jumped off rocks and a small bridge into cool river to add to a fun filled day. To top the day off we had a great dinner and a nice reflection where everybody agreed that it was sure a good day.

Norman Tipton

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