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So i went on spring break...
    #5477891 - 04/04/06 02:39 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

I was blessed with a rare chance to go to mexico last week and got to visit Chacchoben (Chuck-o-cho-ben) land of the red corn.  We took a bus 73km (50 min) from Costa Maya past fruit stands, pineapple farms, alligators, crude huts, large termite nests, resorts, and some nice real-estate to visit the 'ruins' located deep in the jungle.  This land is home to jaguars, ocelot, and puma. Here's a website that does much better photo shoots. Even if you have dial-up, check em out they load fast.

http://www.locogringo.com/past_spotlights/feb2004.cfm



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My guide was Luis Tellez, who also guides bird tours. On this website you can hear a dozen different bird calls and see rare pictures of birds native to the area.  Montezuma Oropendola with its gurgling and popping is my favourite  :grin: :grin: :grin: http://www.rainforest.org/resources/gallery/birds1/09bashrike.html

I have learned that the Mayans were peaceful farmers who relied on ceremonies and offerings to appease and quiet the jungle spirits.  The sun would rise on different parts of the ruins during the equinoxes; this was to tell them of planting and harvesting. The area was cool and shaded by Mahogany trees and Spanish moss dancing from a playful breeze, even though the surrounding had just been 85F and very humid it was very nice here.  I could feel the energy flowing through every stone.  We climbed their ancient stairs to three large pyramids on a plateau overlooking rolling hills. 

The vegetation here was unlike any I had seen before but looked so, so remarkably familiar.  I feel something I only desribe as ancestry.  I burn my White Lotus incense without objection from our guide who explained that the ruins were actually standing due to help of archeologists.  The jungle had taken over for an unknown amount of time and tree roots had dislodged many of the ledges.  They were not really pyramids, but sets of ledges stacked on top of each other. 

He told us that often times walls to structures would collapse and become overgrown with trees, but the archeologists were able to determine with core samples the way the walls had fallen and reconstruct them.  You will see on the pictures the darker stones are recent and the the gray stones are the original; the light tan is what the plaster would have looked like ~1500 years ago.  He gave us time to explore on our own, I walked to a temple on a hill and walked along top of its wall with quite a view over a steep wall and a horizon that looks like the driftless area of the Midwest.  Anyone been to Aztalatan park near Milwaukee or Devil's Lake in Baraboo?

We continued our walk under a huge wall of stones past a small hut holding a tablet depicting a person in the lotus position, thought to be meditating on a cave - the entrance to the earth.  Then we walked down cool trails through an empty ravine of the trees copal incense is derived from.  Mosquitoes are quite busy here, but I feel an ocean of bliss inside of me.

Our last stop was at a temple thought to be their hub.  Our guide told us that paintings that were uncovered at this site had deteriorated and then been re-buried as a way to preserve them.  We all closed our eyes and imagined the Mayan society as a busy village in however it is that we remember it being before... he played us a story on his flute and i experienced the greatest calm I have ever felt.




Since my return I have been fascinated with their culture. I feel a deep connection with the peoples of this area and have been busy researching. 

(I think) The Mayans were descendents of the Olmec, and overtaken by the Tolecs and later the Aztecs until the Spanish burned their books all but eliminated their religion in 1541.  Their cities would grow but drought, crop failures, food shortages and malnutrition would take its toll.  Rise and Fall.


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Re: So i went on spring break... [Re: schmutzen]
    #5479420 - 04/04/06 02:31 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

sounds great.:) if i ever take the boat over to america mexico is high up there on the list together with peru, brazil and argentina.

thanks for sharing


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Re: So i went on spring break... [Re: giz]
    #5481726 - 04/05/06 06:38 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Thanks for reading. I don't think i was able to capture the feeling of the temples, such a power place. Peru is high on the list for me too.


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