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Top photo: Me and Keeci at a typical altar pyramid in the Mayan ruins of Iximche. There's a couple hunred acres of structures like this, dating back 500 years or so.
ReplyDeleteNext down: We stopped at a roadside stand near Iximche and I bought some of the local sweet corn. They give you a lemon slice with salt in it to sprinkle over the corn. It's charred over hot coals, and I liked it much, I hope to try it again someplace this week.
Next down: This is the stand where the woman was selling sweet corn, along with various fruit. I think the corn is not really sweet corn, it is their regular field corn picked in the dough stage. Still, grilled the way it is with the lemon and salt, it is tasty.
Bottom photo: Keeci near the altar at Iximche where the indigenous Mayan still perform some sort of ritual worship. They were gone when we got there, but the sacrificial pit in the forground was still smoldering, and the candles at the top were still burning. We think they had sacrificed something, a chicken, an ear of corn, a virgin, something.