Lost jungle city - box ticked. And, at the risk of sounding like I'm doing things for all the wrong reasons, that particular box has pretty good blagging credentials. Five days of walking through jungle to find some 2000-year-old ruins. Way cool.
Although, like a lot of things, it turned out to be nowhere near as hardcore as I was expecting. The donkey we hired turned out to be a mule train, so pretty much all we had to do was turn up and walk. It was like staying in a hotel, albeit a hotel where the aircon is set at 95% humidity. With insects. And snakes - we saw a coral snake. If you're going to see a snake it may as well be a really dangerous one.
The ruins themselves were pretty cool. All jungle and monkeys and tombs and toucans and pyramids. Enough to fulfill your schoolboy, Indiana Jones, Lara Croft dreams.
Back in Flores now and looking forward to eating something that isn't refried beans.
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