Guatemala part III - Tikal
January 3rd 2016 Ruins, ruins and yet more ruins
If you don't like to look at pictures of ruins, then feel free to leave this particular blog entry and look at some other. There are a few pictures without ruins in them, two or three out of twenty, lurking around in this entry too but they are preciously few. If you decide to tap out now already I would like to point out that we have published well over a hundr
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Tara Cloud
Love the ruins!
Brilliant plan of attack to get photos before the hordes arrived! This is such an evocative photo of endless jungle with the tops of major temples poking out. Part of what I loved about Tikal was how isolated it is and the adventure getting there. Since Tikal was a big city, lots of the administrative and residential buildings were small/normal size. I worked with archaeologists outside Tikal in the jungle where the structures were completely hidden by a thousand years of vegetation. We'd know there was a building only because of a mound and a certain tree that grew out of the structures because they loved the limestone. Love your photo of the little rascal coati.