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The jungles of Guatemala were once covered in the dense urban sprawl of Mayan cities and elevated causeways. Today’s chiclero mule trails typically follow those causeways between chiclero encampments. These trails are littered with stone tools and artifacts, of which this picture is but one example. |
| View from atop El Mirador’s mighty Templo Dante, a 20-story pyramid buried in jungle. The mounds on the horizon are the jungle covered pyramids of El Mono and El Tigre. The undulating jungle on the horizon are the Maya’s elevated causeways, now also buried in jungle. Look for these mounds and hills in all the pictures from atop temples. The density of cities and roads buried in this jungle is truly astounding. |
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Another view from atop Templo Dante. |
| Yet another view from atop Templo Dante. See the mound on the horizon? That is the 20-story Templo Mono, buried in jungle. |
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Another view from atop Templo Dante. This is the first stage of infections caused by an infestation to my legs of hundreds of tiny garrapatas (ticks). These infections would grow to disgusting and dangerous proportions, ultimately forcing an early extraction from the jungle. |
| View from atop Templo Tigre. The mound in the background is Templo Mono. |
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Sunset from atop Templo Mono. |
| Francisco tortillando at camp in El Mirador. |
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