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El Mirador: a journey through the jungle

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Ours was not a magnanimous odyssey the likes of a crusade, much less the return to Ithaca, but have walked the route to the archaeological site of El Mirador, in part by cutting paths the jungles of northern Peten and in part by used by the ancient roads from the Preclassic Maya, was no mean feat.

After two days' journey arrived at camp and next morning we left for the climax of our trip, the top of La Danta pyramid complex named in honor of one of the largest animals in the region. Do not be confused: this is not just a pyramid, although the highest point is at the top of it is rather a series of platforms on which there are three temples and ceremonial as a whole has a larger volume than other similar structures as large as the pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.

platform near ground has an area as large as 17 football fields and the overall height allows us to observe the remains of a perimeter wall that protected the citadel, when I was active back in the first millennium BC. It's impressive stand at this point and feel that you deserve the satisfaction of standing on the symbol of the Mayan civilization, one that by the knowledge they had learned to build and implement is considered the most advanced of this continent, but which inevitably went into decline to be a people detached from the use of reason and, more simply put, being a people who practiced the war, when it is nothing but the best evidence of failure in the task of understanding the each other.

Still, we saw an impressive frieze, the oldest discovered in the Mayan culture, which was next to the canal system these people used to store and distribute water. The interesting thing is that it represents the idea of \u200b\u200bcreation is told in the Popol Vuh, and custom dates to Christianity takes away the originality of the idea. Thus, we conclude that Adam was not the first mythical man (a metaphor, if you wish) which were invented to explain the origin of the world.

After spending some time contemplating the vastness of the forest and the forest that once inhabited the ancient Maya, visit the structure 34 or Great Claw Jaguar, an interesting point because it preserved some of the colors (black, cream, red) were used as decoration. Finally, we saw the sunset from the pyramid of El Tigre and then make a toast to the Zacapa Centenario 23 year old Albert shared with us in the cups that each had to be preserved intact during the journey to this point.

On our way back we passed the site The Tintal, where we could watch the stars from the top of one of the temples till late at night, where some spent the night until dawn. All wonderful! Here we also saw the field for larger ball game around the northern Petén, before embarking on the last day on the way to the village of Carmelita, the only stop on the site of La Florida.

The trip was quite introspective, at least for me, where I could explore various ideas, including some of the following quote to a friend shared before leaving on our adventure:

It is easy to live in the world after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after Our Own, But The great man is he Who in the Midst of the crowd with perfect sweetness Keeps The Independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson

As also said Adelaide forest roads are not flat and took me through narrow byways formed by memories, dreams, fears, joys and another of those words combined that sound good, but once lived, no sound again in a similar way.

The photo is by Luis Pedro .
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