Mexico: Climbing Coba's Mayan Pyramids
"Hundreds of butterflies make up a continuously parting curtain in front of us during our drive on Highway 307 to the ancient Mayan city of Coba in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. Through the alternating thick vegetation and spots of scrub brush, the dirty windows of our Suburban offer glimpses of the Maya as they are today and insight into how they were in the past.
Before reaching the dirt road entrance to the ruins of Coba, whose name means ruffled waters because its eighty square miles houses five shallow lakes, we pass chicleros cutting X’s into sopadilla trees in order to gather the chicle, or gum, which is the main ingredient in - "
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After visiting such a place one almost feels as though one lives in a world of science fiction.
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