Antiquities Day 1!. Up at 6 a.m., and ready at 6:30 for the longish drive S and then SW to Caracol, with Julio Tut, our guide. The Belize - Caracol road is still under construction; the idea, apparently, is to take cruise passengers from Belize City to the Mayan ruins by bus, through that seems like a long drive to me.
After passing Mountain Pine, we stopped to see and photograph a beautiful Laughing Falcon, perched on a high dead tree.
Apparently a million dollar bridge, but not done yet.
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| Bridge under construction |
As seems to be true elsewhere in Belize, the roads are either recently-completed and excellent, or unimproved and execrable. About a third of our trip was on the latter. Nevertheless we arrived; the site itself is also still under construction, with the visitor’s center and museum still incomplete. The Mayan pyramids were finished a couple of millennia ago; of which more anon. And the oropendola colony had already moved on…
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