Calakmul at Noon
You drive for hours and see only trucks with lumber pulled out of the Peten, the jungle nearby. And in the middle of the jungle, without a hill in sight, is Calakmul, sixty four clicks off the highway with nary a cold drink on the way.
About this place:
Mayan ruin on the highway between Chetumal and Escarcega on the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. Highway runs along the Guatemala border. Deserted place. Miles and miles between gas stations. in the middle of the longest stretch is a town called Expujil. A 60-kilometer ride through jungle brings you to Calakmul, one of the Maya world's most thrilling ruins. Still wet from being pulled out of the jungle. No fat tourists. Just steps up into the sky where you can jungle stretching to every flat horizon, 360 degrees. Hot. Beautiful. Better than Cancun or Tulum or even, dare I say it, Tikal.
Chetumal, Estado de Quintana Roo, MX
Discovered by seanie blue
on 12 November 2007.
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