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The walk down the road was pretty
unremarkable, but it is wide and well
maintained. After about a mile and a
quarter we came into a clearing from
which you could see the 1,800 foot Basil
Jones airstrip, a wide buffer zone of
mowed grass is maintained by Nova Shrimp.
Before we got to the actual airstrip we
cut off the road to the south and walked
across the buffer zone and Sam found the
mostly disguised entrance to a trail into
the subtropical forest or jungle. When I
say trail I mean that in the loosest
terms, an animal or pig trail is more of
what it is, at best.
By the time we were
a few feet in the forest, we were
completely soaked from the humidity and
the mosquitoes were all about, but I had
put Deet repellent on my clothes and
Citronella on my face. Take it from me
the Citronella doesn't work and they
were swarming all around my face, I
couldn't get the Deet out and applied
fast enough, and had multiple bites on my
face and hands, by the time I sprayed it
on. The trail was lined with small trees
and a variety of unusual plants and
foliage, many of which could inflict pain
or discomfort, we also kept our
sunglasses on to protect our eyes from
whipping branches. I'm not sure just
how far we traveled, but in about fifteen
minutes we came to a small cave. The cave
is only a few feet deep and about ten
plus feet wide, in a fairly low area and
was quite damp. It is probable that the
Maya utilized the cave, maybe for water.
From the cave we traveled another ten or
fifteen minutes losing the trail once or
twice until we found the site.
As we struggled to keep on the trail, we
almost didn't see the ruins, they
just spring up out of the jungle. The
mound is made of of hand hewn limestone
rocks and is completely surrounded and
over grown with underbrush and trees. It
is hard to get a view of it from more
than a few feet away, the jungle just
swallows it up. We climbed up on top of
the mound and pushed through the dense
growth trying to see the scope of the
temple. We had to watch out not to fall
into the numerous holes dug by looters
down into the mound.
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