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.
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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