I’m sure you guys are tired of reading this, but we had another great day. We didn’t have to hit the road until 9 AM so we slept in a bit. I had a real breakfast (eggs, sausage, and toast) and life was good.
Our drive was relatively short. We weren’t totally sure about the amount of time it would take because the road was only improved last year. It took us about 3 hours to get to the turn off and then about another hour and a half to get to the parking lot where I’m typing this from.
Calakmul is where the fun started. We arrived during the daylight so we had a couple hours to hike and explore the village. The pamphlet I picked up says it has over 140 monuments and is one of the largest Mayan cities ever uncovered - even larger then Tikal, which is probably the most famous.
Another interesting thing about Calakmul is the fact that it sits in a protected biosphere which is home to one of the largest wild cat (jaguars and lynx) populations in North America. We actually heard a small cat off in the distance during the typing of this post.
I’m not even going to try and begin to describe what we saw - I’ll let the photos do the communication. Unfortunately, the bandwidth on our satellite modem is so expensive I can’t upload them right now. Some of us are planning on doing a sunrise hike so I should have spectacular photos from that.
Stay tuned for a pyramid themed update - it will cover the stuff we saw outside of Mexico City and Talakmul.
Chuck
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