Only in Petén

This is the MAIN STREET in Santa Elena / Flores!! If you look straight ahead, you will see the island of Flores … the capitol of Petén … and this is the corner of the main intersection in town. Months ago the muni ripped up and dug out the main road from this intersection to the island capitol … and the road to the right which is the main route out of town. They worked long enough to get a good deep hole which promptly filled with water, at which point they closed down the operation and left it as you see it … with grass growing right up to the intersection.

You can only imagine what this has done to our traffic patterns!!