Day seven

On day seven, we left the sketchy dinosaur hotel at 6:30 in the morning, and drove to Hun Nal Ye. We were all too tired to do the ziplining/canopy tour when we got there, so we all just slept and swam in the pool until lunch. After that, we had some class time where I did a lot of work on food chains and webs in the Guatemalan rainforests and learnt about the animal and plant species that reside in them. It was around this time that I started noticing the mass amounts of land being used for cattle ranching. A lot of forest has been clear-cut in order to raise cattle, and this has caused the soil to erode and also become nutrient-deprived. Some of the soil in this area is red or orange in colour, and this indicates a high level of iron.