I am breaking down my pictures into sections once again...I can't help that I take so many!
These pictures are from Bonampak and Yaxchilan. Two AMAZING Mayan sites deep in the Chaipan jungle, just spitting distance from Guatemala (across the river, actually). Bonampak is reached first after about an hour and half long drive from Palenque. You park at the site and then are made to take their shuttle through some heavy jungle. You arrive at this modest site (modest when compared to Palenque or Yaxchilan, that is) with one large
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Lancha Ride Not cheap (the more people, the cheaper - we were 3 and it cost...
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Ballcourt
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Ball Players I've never seen such wonderful examples of the ballgame being played. You...
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Gorgeous Lintel If you don't know to look, you'll miss these. They are carvings above...
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Breathtaking Detail
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