Been there and done that...
“”Very thick jungles around there.””
I had the privilege of participating in some Mayan excavation. The jungle takes back anything, everything. Remember those ancient ruins in the first Indiana Jones movie? The jungle does not care what humans do. Fortunately, there were no native headhunters, at least none while I was there.
As we would survey on the ground, loooong before Lidar, we could see there is so much more yet to be discovered. To coin a phrase, it is, and will be, fascinating.
Yeah. I’ve been to Uxmal and Chichen Itza. Palenque. All over southeast Mexico and Yucatán.
This is a bit off subject, but your comments about the jungles reminded me of when I was a Boy Scout in the Canal Zone, around 1958.
We had Camp Chagres in the middle of the jungle. Every time we went to our site we had to clear out the jungle to use our site; in just a few months it was reclaimed by the plant life. We had to use machetes and axes, first carefully looking through the branches to avoid snakes.
After clearing, we would look for tarantula and snake holes so we wouldn’t pitch our tent over them. At night we could hear all sorts of animal life. It was an incredible experience.