By River in Belize to Lamanai
Traveling up the New River in Belize to the Mayan ruins at Lamanai includes great views of wildlife.
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Traveling up the New River in Belize to the Mayan ruins at Lamanai includes great views of wildlife.
The ATM cave in Belize is a sacred Mayan sacrificial site which was used infrequently from around 600 to 900 C.E.
Tulúm, the Mayan ruins by the sea, guarded the approach to the major Mayan city of Cobá, 50 kilometers inland. The Temple of the Wind, it seemed to me, also…
One of the best things about the ruins at Tulúm was their compactness. They're only spread over a few acres and the site can be easily seen in a little…
One of the recurring motifs at many Mayan sites is the curved nose of the rain god, Chaak. The curve, in the sense that it both descends and ascends, represents…
On our way to the Mayan sites of Uxmal and Kabáh, we stopped briefly in Umán to look at the Sixteenth Century Church and stroll the local market. The main…