
Tikal – complete washout
Fun Tikal fact – George Lucas came here in 1979 to shoot a scene for one of his Star Wars films.
Fun Tikal fact – George Lucas came here in 1979 to shoot a scene for one of his Star Wars films.
Within 60 seconds of being underwater we were surrounded by sharks, rays, moray eels and hundreds of fish.
We are very much in the Caribbean now, the Caribbean that I had always imagined. Patois is now spoken along with English and a very youthful Queen now features on all the notes – it’s like stepping back to the 80s.
It’s a mix of four different cultures here, Caribbean, Mayan, Hindu and Chinese. We decide to mix it up even further and stay in a tree house like affair in the middle of a swamp owned by a British chap called Rusty
This was actually quite an honour, the square was packed, the whole town was here and behind us the God squad stood waiting for us to light the explosives to kick the whole thing off.
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