Monday morning was our class trip to the largest Maya city in Belize, Caracol. In it's hayday, Caracol boasted a population of some 150,000, and even beat out Tikal when war broke out. The big attraction is Canna, which has remained the tallest structure in the country for some 1500 years. Much of the site remains largely unexcavated to this day. The ride out took us on the pine ridge dirt road once again, this time for close to 3 hours, but not without a brief stop at the ranger station. The station was where we met up with our armed escort of 2 national guardsmen with M16's. The escorts are mandatory on the road as there was instances of bandits robbing tourists along the way. Upon getting there, we found out that there had been
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