When in the inital planning stages of the trip, an early version included an insane international segment with a 9 hour+ layover in Mexico City feeding into an assault on both parks there before heading back to the airport to fly onward to Guatemala City in what would be a brilliantly timed run to Xetulul. There was just a couple minor problems with that brilliant idea. First, Xetutul’s new website was still under construction, leaving us with a language barrier, no calendar, no information whatsoever other than rudimentary instructions from the regions website.
Second more pressing issue is placement. Lisa Scheinin is, to my knowledge afterwards, the only person who’s braved the drive to the park, and since I didn’t know if she had or not, I didn’t bother asking her on how insane it was. Enough info on the internet seemed to indicate that while Sean was a veteran now of the roads of Europe, Guatemala, a nation where accidents usually land everyone in jail and so no one ever reports them, would be a very different place. Simply put for the uninitiated, Xetutul is out 200 miles from Guatemala City in a recently constructed resort town in the jungle. The instructions to get there mention that passing trucks carrying sugar cane is a good indicator you’re on the way.
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