We went on the ATM tour today. The letters stand for the Mayan name of the cave, which I can’t remember at the moment, but regardless I’m speechless! I have no words to describe how incredible this place was! We hiked to the cave and then swam into it, climbing up rocks, swimming through the cave water; it was an extreme excursion. There were ceramic pots still completely intact. They were from thousands of years ago!!! There were also skulls and even one complete human skeleton, completely preserved. Her jaw was broken and she had an irregular pelvis. Our guide told us that this made researchers think she was brutally killed. There was also human remains that were in a form that made people believe it died in a kneeling position with its hands tied behind its back. I’ve never been so in awe of anything. The cave was so full of information. Our guide kept making us turn our lights off to get the full effect of how the Mayans went through the cave. They had torches and he used his light to show the shadows they would have seen. The fumes causing them to hallucinate made these even scarier. The echoes of the water flowing also sounded like voices. They believed that spirits lived in the caves, so I can imagine all of this to be petrifying!
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