11-09-08 Return from La Muneca

I needed to see a tiny bit more of the ruins, so I took about 20 min to visit the tallest ruin at the site. A large section of masonry has been uncovered by a fallen tree (the roots of the tree removed a lot of soil exposing architecture). The blocks were about 2' wide by 1' tall, and were between 3-5' deep into the structure. Very much unlike any other wall I have seen, and I think very early.

A large section of exposed wall, probably this section was once covered with a large mask made from stucco.

One of the larger looting tunnels. Very few details in these holes, only a few early floors could be seen in a few of the tunnels.

Not the largest, but a typical wall stone.

The walk home was exhusting and my head hurt from dehyration. The trail was open from yesterday, so the distance that took a full day we were able to do in about 4 hours. Our guide was an ace with his gun, and shot a few turkeys on the way home stuffing them into his backpack. He cleaned on bird when we took a break at our first camp, the coles were still buring from 2 nights ago and we relite the fire to keep the bugs away. After cleaning the turkey, he cleaned his knife and hands with a lime he brought. About 10km from his house his wife met us with horses to carry our bags and some increadible chilli rellenos. When we got back we had some eggs, beans and turkey before heading back to Zoh Laguna. I must have picked more then two dozen ticks off me.