We took a cab south and headed headed out into the forest on foot. Much of the road was muddy, but we avoided by taking a complex maze of paths though the forest. The road had not been used in three years. It was originally made for logging. It is now part of the Calakmul Bioresearve, so logging is no longer permitted. It was last used for a puma and jaguar study. This study ended when an exceptionally large puma ran up a tree to avoid the researcher. Trying to escape it jumped trees and fell. They were able to tranquize it, but it never woke up. They got sued and the project was shut down. There was a puma on the road ahead of us, but I did not see it. The tracks were everywhere you looked, and the cats must have been huge. People have been known to be attacked by the cats here.
We had to carry all of our food, camping gear and water, which was very heavy. We were able to drop water along they way for our trip back though which slowly made our load lighter.
We set up camp and made a fire. The fire was to scare away cats, but was also a very effective insect repellent. Our guide still slept next to his gun.
Puma prints were everywhere, and very big too.
This was over 10km into the forest, hard to imagin how it got here.
Camp on the old logging road.
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