Lake
The Mayan people were given a horse by the Spaniards and asked to take care of it. They didn't know how to care for a horse, and, after a while, it died. Worried about the implications of this, they carved a beautiful, life-sized horse of stone. They were going to tell the Spaniards that the gods turned their horse into stone. Well, on their way across this lake, the boat capsized, and the stone horse fell to the bottom. Tourists can take boats to this site and still see the life-sized, stone horse at the bottom of the lake.
The Maya civilization flourished in Guatemala and surrounding regions during the first millennium A.D. After almost three centuries as a Spanish colony, Guatemala won its independence in 1821. During the second half of the 20th century, it experience... ... read more 
