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Carvings at the top of El Castillo pyramid - please click to enlarge
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  Here is one of the Mayan sites in North America.  In Belize which is bordered by Mexico, Guatemala and the Caribbean Sea.  This site was built in about 630AD, was once abandoned and reactivated.  It remains an important historical location.  It's amazing when you look at the detail in this pyramid which appears, to me, to be made of thousands of stones.
  I stumbled across this article while I was looking for tropical vacation places that I never intended to go to.  There are many beautiful beaches in Belize with white sand and nice bungalows to stay in.  The interior is jungle like and agricultural.

Scarlet Macaw birds in a game sanctuary
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