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Eco-Tourism: The Director's Cut

Eco-Tourism: The Director's Cut

HIS scene is good  chuck-it-all fantasies: Riding a handsome mahogany mare, I'm following my machete-packing guide, Jason Smith, through a rain forest in Belize. Absurdly oversized ferns gently swipe my sandy boots as we negotiate the green-canopied trail; to our right is an anthill the size of a child's igloo, rising from our left are trumpet trees, great oaks and vertical palms splayed out like a giantess's fan.

Last Updated ( Sunday, 03 August 2008 19:57 )

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In Tikal, Temples in the Mist

In Tikal, Temples in the Mist

The ruins at Tikal National Park in northern Guatemala, some nearly 3,000 years old, were reopened for Mayan rituals in the late 1990s.

 

IN Tikal, the ancient Mayan city in northern Guatemala, dawn is not seen — it is heard. First, a roar. Then a responding roar, then another and another — not from jaguars, but from howler monkeys, proclaiming their territory. A squeaking counterpoint begins: the raccoonlike coatimundi greeting one another as they forage for food. Finally the birds join in, toucans clicking their long bills and parrots shrieking, the prima donna first violins bringing the symphony to a climax.

Last Updated ( Saturday, 03 May 2008 12:12 )

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