Let’s start with a question that you never dreamed you would be asked. When you have visited a place of interest and paid your entry fee, what is the furthest distance you have then had to travel? Try 40 miles, or 63km which is what happened at Calakmul today.
It is an enormous Mayan ruin in the heart of the jungle. It wasn’t strictly true that it was an entrance fee – it was actually about £6 for road maintenance. You then pay another fee which was never explained after about 20km, before eventually getting to the site after a total of 63km from the main road. And the road maintenance fee is a bit of a diddle as there are loads of potholes which makes progress slow and laborious.
But we made it and it was well worth it.
See what I mean about in the jungle and overgrown.
Apparently there were about 50,000 inhabitants at its peak about 1200 years ago.
More photos to follow if I can sort out IT (again!). A great day only stressed a little by FOROOF – fear of running out of fuel. There weren’t many petrol stations in the middle of the jungle, which was when the needle decided to lurch into the red zone. But we survived!