This is the last image I'll post from my most recent trip to Mexico. The trip was an adventure of long hikes through the jungle (and climbs up 50 to 60 foot high hills over broken masonry) in blistering heat (35C with humidexes over 40 on some days), muddy, washed out roads, bug bites (and one stubbornly infected ant bite) and the pure amazement of standing in front of the remains of buildings 1,000 to 1,200 years old. For me, visiting these amazing sites was a both joy and a privilege.

Thank you for all your favs and comments on these images. They have meant a lot to me.

If you'd like to read about this trip, I have a blog post about it that you might enjoy.

Take a look at the whole series of infrared images of Mayan Ruins that I have been working on since 2014, as well, if you'd like.

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Edificio 1 at Sabacce, again, but in this image I let the gorgeous Chaca trees, growing up around the ruin, take centre stage.

At the end of November, I took my third trip to Mexico since 2014 to photograph Mayan ruins. I visited a number of ruins not open to the public, overgrown and hidden in the jungle, in order to continue working on my series of infrared images of Mayan Ruins. Many people think that the large ruins (Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Labna, Sayil, etc.) comprise the totality of Mayan civilization in the Yucatan, but there are literally hundreds of smaller or satellite cities spread throughout Yucatan and Campeche. These are the ruins that draw me - beautiful, sometimes remote, ruins, partially overgrown, but still standing after more than a thousand years.

If you'd like to read about this trip, I have a blog post about it that you might enjoy.

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One more image from the wonderful ruin of Xkipche, buried in the jungle.

Between 1990 and 1997 and again between 2002 and 2004, a team from the University of Bonn in German and Mexico's INAH (the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia) did thorough and detailed excavations at Xkipche. Then it was left to go back to the jungle.

At the end of November, I took my third trip to Mexico since 2014 to photograph Mayan ruins. I visited a number of ruins not open to the public, overgrown and hidden in the jungle, in order to continue working on my series of infrared images of Mayan Ruins. Many people think that the large ruins (Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Labna, Sayil, etc.) comprise the totality of Mayan civilization in the Yucatan, but there are literally hundreds of smaller or satellite cities spread throughout Yucatan and Campeche. These are the ruins that draw me - beautiful, sometimes remote, ruins, partially overgrown, but still standing after more than a thousand years.

If you'd like to read about this trip, I have a blog post about it that you might enjoy.

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The light was so beautiful when I photographed this beautiful ruin, that I can't resist posting another image. And there might be one more.

While the sites I've been posting images of are not open to the public, in Yucatan there is a group called Manzana (Mantenimiento a Zonas Arqueológicas No Abiertas - Maintenace of Archaeological Areas Not Open) that monitors the state of the ruins and, on occasion, will clear some of the vegetation around them. Though there are literally thousands of ruins on the Yucatan Peninsula, and there isn't money to maintain all of them, some effort is being made to monitor them.

At the end of November, I took my third trip to Mexico since 2014 to photograph Mayan ruins. I visited a number of ruins not open to the public, overgrown and hidden in the jungle, in order to continue working on my series of infrared images of Mayan Ruins. Many people think that the large ruins (Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Labna, Sayil, etc.) comprise the totality of Mayan civilization in the Yucatan, but there are literally hundreds of smaller or satellite cities spread throughout Yucatan and Campeche. These are the ruins that draw me - beautiful, sometimes remote, ruins, partially overgrown, but still standing after more than a thousand years.

If you'd like to read about this trip, I have a blog post about it that you might enjoy.

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Tags:   Infrared Maya Mayan Mexico Ruins Sabacche 1 Yucatan

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Kom is an amazing, sprawling site and this wonderful building (and a few others around it) sits at the top of a long climb straight up. In the Puuc area, arable land was highly valued, so most buildings sit not in the valleys, but atop rocky outcroppings or, in this case high atop a hill. One can imagine that the view from here would give you oversight and control over all the surrounding valleys.

At the end of November, I took my third trip to Mexico since 2014 to photograph Mayan ruins. I visited a number of ruins not open to the public, overgrown and hidden in the jungle, in order to continue working on my series of infrared images of Mayan Ruins. Many people think that the large ruins (Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Labna, Sayil, etc.) comprise the totality of Mayan civilization in the Yucatan, but there are literally hundreds of smaller or satellite cities spread throughout Yucatan and Campeche. These are the ruins that draw me - beautiful, sometimes remote, ruins, partially overgrown, but still standing after more than a thousand years.

If you'd like to read about this trip, I have a blog post about it that you might enjoy.

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Tags:   Infrared Kom Maya Mayan Mexico Ruins Yucatan

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