Sentences with phrase «ancient ceremonial site»

Watching the sun set over this ancient ceremonial site is not to be missed.

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MAYA HUB An ancient Maya site called La Corona (shown in this artist's illustration with a ceremonial center in the foreground) was a remote but key part of a large Classic Maya state, new research suggests.
An ancient melting pot of diverse hunter - gatherers uniting to build ceremonial sites may have been the start of big Maya cities
Fly to Cusco and descend into the Sacred Valley of the Incas for guided tours of the ceremonial site of Kenko, where ancient rituals were performed, and the Temple of Sacsayhuaman.
Three plazas and thirteen structures mark the epicentre of this very important ceremonial site of ancient Maya civilization.
Barton Creek — This cave is 45 minutes from the town of San Ignacio, and was used by the ancient Mayans as a burial site and for ceremonial purposes.
Add a tour to Xunantunich, another ancient site, where you can climb the 130 - foot tall El Castillo pyramid ruin and finish your immersion on a day trip to Barton Creek Cave by indulging in cave tubing or canoeing in addition to touring this ceremonial ruin.
Cenotes were once sites of ceremonial importance to the ancient Mayan Empire that once controlled the Yucatan.
Both of these trail segments meet above the Inca ruins of Patallaqta (sometimes called Llaqtapata), a site used for religious and ceremonial functions, crop production, and housing for soldiers from the nearby hilltop site of Willkaraqay, an ancient pre-Inca site first inhabited around 500 BC.
These cenotes were once considered sacred ceremonial sites for the ancient Mayan civilization.
The descendants of the ancient Maya that built the impressive pyramids, palaces, and ceremonial sites that dot the Belizean landscape, the Maya in Belize speak three different dialects: Kekchi (various spellings), Mopan, and the increasingly rare Yucatec.
It takes 45 minutes approximately from San Ignacio to this exciting canoe trip into a remote cave formerly used by the ancient Mayans as a burial site and for ceremonial purposes.
The ATM Cave was a sacred ceremonial site for the ancient Maya — they considered it an opening to the underworld — and it still retains its spooky, spiritual atmosphere.
Hike and trek through the dense jungle and visit ancient Mayan sites such as Xunantunich, once a Maya ceremonial center.
The closest archaeological site to Belize City, this ancient Mayan ceremonial center has 2 main plazas with over 13 excavated temples and residential structures.
The geology of Belize has created thousands of caves, many of which were used as sacred ceremonial sites by the ancient Maya that once ruled the country in the long centuries before the arrival of Europeans.
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