Pictures from Ab Ah Tak Alik

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Pictures from the trip to Ab Ah Tak Alik the ruins we visited from Xela

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Photos

We arrive at Ab Ah Tak Alik
the entrance to the ruins, we arrives after an hour drive from the Casa. It was much more humid and warm closer to the coast

standing in time
I am looking down at my feet, standing in foot prints that had been carved into the rock around 800 AD, my feet almost fit.

on the steps of the ruins
Jim and I sitting on the temple steps

more vegitation
plant life in Guatemala is amazing, the colours bright and great to see.

cacao pod
a coco plant with a seed pod growing at the site

new years day on the Mayan calendar
we saw some interesting cerimonies taking place at the ruins as it was the Mayan new year and people came to the ruins to celebrate

blistered tourist plant
a local tree often refered to as the blistered tourist as the bark looks like a tourist who is burn in the sun and then blisters

Peccary
there was a small zoo on the grounds of the ruins where we were able to see some of the native animals.

more peccarys
i really liked the little guys

new years
another Mayan New Years cerimony in front of the ruined temple

sacred toad
Stone sculpture on a sacred toad. The toads had a chemical under their skin which the mayan's used to put themselves in a mystic state

living fence
a sample of a living fence. The posts are put into the ground and then root and sprout branches so that most of the fences are made up of living trees and bushes

rubber tree finca
the trees are cut in a spiral and the rubber drips into little buckets which are then collected.

bamboo
The sides of the road yeild many plants growing wild, bamboo is one of these plants, they grow like weeds.