Tikal, home to exhibitionist Spider Monkey’s (who gave me the spread eagle every time I took a picture of them), scary Jaguars, growling Howler Monkeys, Toucans, a random Ceiba Tree, and to the Massassi Outpost as seen in Star Wars IV: A New Hope. Yup, Tikal was an eye-opening, wonderful personal experience, but also a perfect learning experience about one of the first cultures in the world that left me thinking I had visited Yavin and I had been instilled with a rebel spirit that led the rest of my trip with wild abandon.