Monday, December 27, 1993

A trip to Ceibal







We made friends with our guide, Tony, and contracted with him to take us to the outlying ruins of Ceibal.
We took a boat on la Pasión river and had to climb to the ruins in the midst of a tropical rainforest.

It was first inhabited around 800 B.C., abandoned between 500 and 590 A.D., then reoccupied in 735 A.D. It grew dramatically around 830 – 930 A.D. when its population reached 10,000. Then it was abandoned and wasn’t rediscovered until 1890.

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