Bonampak
A tiny place, but it shines all the more brightly as you will shortly find out |
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Interesting, and still being worked on, but for now, nothing much to see |
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And what you see is what you get. A tiny Mayan temple. And the main attraction is in the small building on the right |
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This, however, is what it is all about, and there is nothing like it anywhere else |
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That's the header of one of the doors to one of the three rooms |
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This door was painted, but much of the pigmentation and stucco remains | Here we see some furious battle scene going on, with death being imminent |
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Because of lack of interest I climbed to the top on my own |
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Up there, checking door headers, I discovered my reward for climbing up, another beautifully carved header and of course a great view of the whole place. One husband and wife from another group came up as well |
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Leaf cutter ants can be found all over Mexico, wherever a certain kind of bush grows |