Yucatan Peninsula: On the road to recovery

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | April 16, 2006| | Copyright

COBA, Mexico -- Once in the open I felt the blazing sun, and sweat beads began bubbling on my forearms. Grabbing the thick rope, I began hauling myself up the steep, rough stone steps of Nicoh Mul, at 140 feet the Yucatan's tallest Mayan pyramid. I reached the top platform in two minutes and took a look around to catch my breath. Other than a pair of lacquer lakes shimmering in the distance and the gray pinnacle of a small temple protruding from the forest canopy, everything else was an undulating sea of green.

Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula is a vast thumb of low-lying limestone blanketed by ...

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