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A Final Resting Place (finally) – Nahá, Lacandon Jungle, Chiapas, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 5 June 2011
In 1951 Danish historian, anthropologist, explorer, art history teacher, archaeologist and oil man Frans Blom and his Swiss wife Gertrude “Trudi” Duby Blom, a journalist and mountain climber turned photographer and ecologist, founded the Na Bolom Center of Scientific Studies based in San Cristóbal de las Casasin Chiapas, Mexico. First wishes Their goal was to preserve the ways and rights of the indigenous Lacandon people and other indigenous groups in the region and it’s virtually impossible to overstate the impact their documentation, respect and support have had on these groups.
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The Last of the Lacandon? – Nahá & Metzabok, Chiapas, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 31 May 2011
The Lacandon Maya are the descendents of the Mayan who fled what is now southern Mexico and northern Guatemala in order to escape the Spanish. It worked and since that time the Lacandon have survived in the ever-shrinking jungle–what’s left of the millions of acres they once called home. Changing times Some Lacandon communities had no contact with the “outside world” until the mid-20th Century but things have changed fast since then.
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Getting There – Bonampak & Yaxchilán, Chiapas, Mexico
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 15 May 2011
Bonampak After two and a half hours on severely pot-holed pavement (which is even worse than pot-holed dirt) we were happy to park the truck at the ramshackle village-run welcome station near Bonampak archaeological site. Here you’re required to pay 71 pesos per person (about US$6) to the local Lacandon community. That pre-entrance fee entitles you to a seat on an old school bus with all of the windows missing for the 20 minute drive to the site itself. Almost as soon as the bus pulled away from the ugly mess of unfinished concrete at the ejido entrance station we entered another world.
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