Wildlife River Cruise & Lamanai Mayan Ruins
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- Published on Sunday, 04 September 2011 15:27
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Wildlife New River Cruise + Mayan CIty of Lamanai
This activity combines wetland wild-life watching with a trip back
more than a thousand years to a pinnacle of achievement in the long
history of the Ancient Maya: Lamanai. You will have a chance to climb
to the top of the tallest pyramid for breathtaking views above the
canopy.
Laman'ai is thought to be a corruption of Lama'an/ayin - Yucatecan for
submerged crocodile - and the city was continuously occupied for
almost three thousand years. Founded by or before 1500 BCE, Lamanai
somehow survived the decline that devastated most of the southern
lowland sites in the 9th and 10th centuries CE, maintaining its
political and religious structures and the level of its population.
Throughout the post-classic period the community continued to flourish
and remain active while most neighboring sites were abandoned and fell
into decay.
