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06. Bacalar

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It is time for a day off. Bacalar is a relatively quiet town, on the side of a very pleasant lagoon, apparently showing no less than seven different colours during the year. Since we are only going to be here a day or two, we are already happy to distinguish two colours, dark- and light-blue. [...]
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05. the Rio Bec Maya sites

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There are innumerable Maya sites, big and small, stretching from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala to the south of Mexico. The Yucatan peninsula has probably the highest density of sites; many exquisite Maya settlements, large and small. And Ruta 186, the road that cuts across the beginning of the peninsula, from west to east, through [...]
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02. a bit of pre-Columbian history

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Yucatan is Maya country. Not so much in the Costa May, which stretches south of Cancun and has very little to do with the largest indigenous group of people in Mexico, but more in its many discovered, and probably even more undiscovered – jungle covered – Maya archaeological sites (as you know, the word ‘ruins’ [...]
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Tikal

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Tikal, in the north of Guatemala, is beyond doubt one of the most impressive Maya sites in entire Central America. No less than five huge pramids, up to 60 meters high reach above the jungle to provide a magnificent view over the countryside, and over the other temples of the complex. The oldest buildings probably [...]
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Seibal

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Most people who come to Flores, in the north of Guatemala, will go on to visit Tikal. Fair enough. But an interesting side trip could be a river journey to Seibal (previously called Ceibal), another Mayan monument, along the Rio de la Pasion – could there ever have been a more beautiful name for a [...]
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Takalik Abaj

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Takalik Abaj – 20 years ago known as Abaj Takalik – is a Mayan site with Olmec history. The Olmecs we know from Mexico, from their characteristic large head sculptures (see for some examples the last Mexican travelogue entry). The site seems to have an astonishingly 2000 years of history, from the 9th C BC [...]
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Nebaj

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On the way to Nebaj, high up in the mountains, we stop at Santa Cruz del Quiché, the capital of the Quiché department – named after one of the Maya tribes. ‘El Quiché’, as the town is usually called, is already at over 2000 m, and is a base for visiting the Utatlan ruins. Utatlan [...]
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Iximche

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Iximche was the capital city of one of the Mayan tribes, the Cakchiquel, who initially allied with the Spanish when they arrived, to gain an advantage against rival Mayans. The Cakchiquel were nevertheless beaten anyhow, after they cancelled their alliance because the Spanish demanded ever more gold. In the end the only advantage left is [...]
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