This
morning, my cohorts got up at 4am to go on a sunrise tour. I’m sure it’s
spectacular, but I don’t get up at 4am if I don’t have to. Besides, I’m
scheduled for the sunset tour tonight, and I’m sure it will blow my mind. So I
“slept in” until about 6am, when it was fully light out, and the birds and
critters seemed to be having a loudness contest. I could wake up to worse
things than a jungle full of wildlife saying good morning!
Post-breakfast,
we spent a morning of bird calls mostly around the pool, where a group of South
African backpackers have chosen to disregard the sign about the pool being for
guests only. Not that we are complaining. One of them told a fascinating story
about his uncle the arms dealer. Not positive that it was all truthful, but
fascinating nonetheless. We’re set to go to the artifact museum in a few
minutes, and then there will be a sunset tour tonight, with Juan, the guy who
led this morning’s sunrise tour. He’s been a tour guide for 25 years, and
speaks 5 languages. We started talking earlier, in German, and he asked about my
background with Spanish (I know a lot of obscure stuff, but not much that’s
useful in a regular conversation. He said he’s best at speaking French, and I
asked why he wasn’t best at speaking Spanish, if that’s his first language. We
had a good laugh. Definitely looking forward to talking to him some more!
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