WE HAVE VISITED OVER A DOZEN TOLMEC-MAYAN-AZTEC CITY/TEMPLE RUINS THROUGHOUT MESOAMERICA DOWN TO COSTA RICA. LUCKILY WE VISITED EARLY MORNING OR LATE AFTERNOON AND ON MANTY OCCASIONS NEVER SAW ANOTHER SOLE UNTIL MID-MORNING. LOTS ARE SET IN UNEXCAVATED JUNGLE AND THE WILDLIFE(BIRDS IN PARTICULAR ARE STUNNING)FRO EXAMPLE WE HAD SPOTTED THREE RAIL SPECIES THE SIZE OTF TURKEYS HIGH UP IN TREES ROOSTING AND THREE SPECIES OF TOUCANS WITHIN 10 MINS OF ENTERING TIKAL IN GUATEMALA. PHOTOS DON'T DEPICT THE SERENITY AND MAJESTY. A FEW SAMPLES THE FIRST TWO ARE OF OLMEC MASKS ONLY EXCAVATED OVER THE LAST TWO MONTHS AT LAMANAI IN BELIZE. THEY DATE TOO AROUND 750-250 BC. REPLICASA ARE BEING MADE WHICH WILL BE PLACED IN FRONT THEN THE ORIGINALS COVERED OVER AGAIN NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN-MAYBE UNTIL SOME INTREPID ARCHEOLOGISTS EXCAVATE AGAIN IN CENTURIES TO COME.
WHEN A RULER DIES A NEW PYRAMID IS BUILT OVER THE EXISTING ONE AND MASKS OF NEW RULER PUT IN PLACE. SO LIKE A RUSSIAN DOLL MAYAN PYRAMIDS ARE BUILT UP WITH UP TO SEVEN LAYERS.
TULUM UNIQUE LOCATION ON THE COAST MEXICO
MAIN FUNERARYTEMPLE PALENQUE MEXICO
JAGUAR TEMPLE TIKAL GUATEMALA
TEMPLE V TIKAL RESTORED 1995-2005.STUPENDOUS CLIMB TO TOP.
BACK OF TEMPLE v SEEN FROM TEMPLE v1 JUST ON SUNSET
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