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They still don’t know what’s out in the jungle there. I went there three times and spent time on construction projects in the south of Belize wa-a-a-ay out in the boondocks. The jungle is so thick you can’t see another person five feet away in places. Last time there, they had just found some new complex out in the bush.
One thing for sure, they need more roads than the single highway bisecting Belize and plenty of fill for the malarial swamps.
Oooops.
Maybe the construction company can sell it as “enhanced” gravel
Never been there but my sister a world traveler was. It’s a small country having a population of about that of Iceland but with a much larger area and messy politics. One of their presidents got booted out for pulling off stuff Obama is doing now. In Belize case taking control over the only TV network the country has.
Sis reported that where she stayed in the capital stray dogs were running wild all over the place. It’s a shame it’s the only English speaking country on the mainland south of Mexico with great tourist pontential. But they don’t seem to have their act together when they allow a tourist attraction with great historical value to be destroyed.
I was there earlier this year.
Lovely people, corrupt government, same song different verse.
Once you get out of Belize City, the people basically govern themselves, they are poor but the kids are clean, well fed and loved.
I believe that particular problem has been fixed.
After more investigation, it was determined that this particular pyramid housed the original “world will end 2012 calendars.”
The Mayans should have been more generous when representatives of Brotherhood Local 214 came to call....
I suspect what really happened is similar to what happens in the US. The government tells a landowner that something on his land is now “preserved”, so for whatever reason, he cannot use his own land.
Likewise when a land developer is preparing land, and one of his crew notices some weird looking insect, his foreman says “kill it you idiot!”, and to forget they ever saw it, because some eco-nut would delay their project for a year and cost them millions because of an “endangered” bug. Maybe even get some federal judge to seize the land and put it off limits.
What makes it worse is that “here” that bug is “endangered”, but like five miles away they are all over the place as a pest. Doesn’t matter one bit to the eco-nut.
And sad to say, the same thing applies to archeology. Though people adore preserved monuments, the truth is that once the critical details are taken from them, the vast majority are just piles of rocks, of little value.
What it used to look like:
View from the top:
What's left of it now:
Ooops.
Ut oh.
This is going to have new agers chewing at their limbs. They are super hot on the Myans and their pyramid structures (where they sacrificed human beings to their gods).
It’s super greedy to knock the pyramid (a sight seeing attraction) for road gravel.