Day 3 of the trip began at 5am to have breakfast and be packed and ready for the coach at 5.45. The hotel made us packed lunches with ham, cheese, lettuce and mayo sandwiches (which tasted pretty disgusting actually), a banana, a water bottle and a mango juice carton. Our journey on the coach was approximately 7 hours with a stop at the dive centre to pick up a guy named ross then a stop at a random shop in the middle of nowhere to grab a snack and to drop ross onto another coach which had people going the other way. They had just had their first week in Calakmul and were moving onto the second half of the trip. They were all saying how amazing it was.
KM20 was the name of the camp we were on our way to. We put our bags in one little room and had a tour of the facilities, got our tent allocations and our first lunch at the camp. All the food is prepared by a local village. It was beans but not the Heinz baked kind, some brown version that had a weird texture and weren't as tasty. It came with chicken and pure melon juice. Much better than I was expecting for a camp in the middle of nowhere.
We had a relaxing afternoon with my first trip to the loo. It had one section for your pee and another which basically was just a hole for number 2's. It'll take time to get used to but the paper goes in a bucket in front of you not down the hole. (It took just as long after I got home to get used to not putting the paper in the bucket because my bathroom at home has the bin in the same place as the bucket was in Mexico! Some awkward moments happened there!). The 'door' to the loos was a tarp. The team leader, whilst on our tour, demonstrated how to enter like Indiana Jones with the disinfectant to keep the stench down.
Dinner from the village was more brown beans and spicy scrambled egg with lemon juice (I'm sure you are loving the dinner chat right after a loo chat aren't you?) And that was followed by a shower in the dark. Not the most pleasant or easy thing to do.
Toodles for now.
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