Gareth Leonard | THE DEVIL LIVES in This Mexican Jungle!! ☠️ Chetumal, Mexico Travel Vlog @GarethLeonard | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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Chetumal, Mexico - On our final day here in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico; also known as the Mexican Caribbean, or Riviera Maya (Mayan Riviera), we're off on one last Mexican adventure.
We’re told there’s a massive abandoned Mayan city deep in the Mexican jungle outside Chetumal and Bacalar, Mexico. I have been to the Maya Ruins in Tulum, Chichen Itza and the Coba Mayan Ruins in the Yucatán Peninsula. All were fascinating but pretty crowded with tourists. I wanted to travel deeper!
As the rest of the crew made their way back to the Chetumal airport to fly home, myself, Branden and our trusty driver Francisco pick up our new guide, Antonio, and a local guide Eddie to take us even deeper into the Mexican jungle to find untouched Mayan ruins.
After over an hour of driving through the jungle, we arrive in the abandoned ancient Mayan city of Chichan-Ha, and you’ll find very little information about it online.
Eddie tells me it was only discovered as a side effect from the demand of chewing gum. Apparently, during the first world war, chewing gum became so popular for the boys going off to fight that the Chico Sapote tree, the one that produces the resin for natural chewing gum, became very valuable - and thus people would travel deep into the jungle to find it.
Thankfully, the tree takes about 15 to 20 years to cultivate so once people extracted all they could, they left the area and forgot all about the ruins. Also, the long difficult drive through the jungle has kept them pretty protected ever since.
That afternoon, as our time here in the Mexican Caribbean quickly slips away, there’s just one more place I want to experience to cap off this Mayan-focused expedition. After a delicious Mexican Food lunch outside Chetumal, we visit one final Mayan Ruins site called Kohunlich.
he incredibly well-preserved ruins of Kohunlich. It’s Tulum or Chitchan Iza without the people. Literally, nobody.
The ancient city of Kohunlich covers 21 acres surrounded by tropical rainforest. It was elaborately planned and engineered with raised platforms, plazas, pyramids, citadels and courtyards, and the craziest part is, what we see is only the tip of the iceberg, the majority of this site remains unexcavated.
Finishing the trip here provides even more appreciate for this unbelievable civilization. Walking among these historical footsteps and just imagining what life was like here gives me such an an amazing energy, and a feeling that I’m honestly gunna miss. I love this stuff.
Please leave a comment if you've read this far so I can thank you personally! 😃
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Chetumal, Mexico - On our final day here in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico; also known as the Mexican Caribbean, or Riviera Maya (Mayan Riviera), we're off on one last Mexican adventure.
We’re told there’s a massive abandoned Mayan city deep in the Mexican jungle outside Chetumal and Bacalar, Mexico. I have been to the Maya Ruins in Tulum, Chichen Itza and the Coba Mayan Ruins in the Yucatán Peninsula. All were fascinating but pretty crowded with tourists. I wanted to travel deeper!
As the rest of the crew made their way back to the Chetumal airport to fly home, myself, Branden and our trusty driver Francisco pick up our new guide, Antonio, and a local guide Eddie to take us even deeper into the Mexican jungle to find untouched Mayan ruins.
After over an hour of driving through the jungle, we arrive in the abandoned ancient Mayan city of Chichan-Ha, and you’ll find very little information about it online.
Eddie tells me it was only discovered as a side effect from the demand of chewing gum. Apparently, during the first world war, chewing gum became so popular for the boys going off to fight that the Chico Sapote tree, the one that produces the resin for natural chewing gum, became very valuable - and thus people would travel deep into the jungle to find it.
Thankfully, the tree takes about 15 to 20 years to cultivate so once people extracted all they could, they left the area and forgot all about the ruins. Also, the long difficult drive through the jungle has kept them pretty protected ever since.
That afternoon, as our time here in the Mexican Caribbean quickly slips away, there’s just one more place I want to experience to cap off this Mayan-focused expedition. After a delicious Mexican Food lunch outside Chetumal, we visit one final Mayan Ruins site called Kohunlich.
he incredibly well-preserved ruins of Kohunlich. It’s Tulum or Chitchan Iza without the people. Literally, nobody.
The ancient city of Kohunlich covers 21 acres surrounded by tropical rainforest. It was elaborately planned and engineered with raised platforms, plazas, pyramids, citadels and courtyards, and the craziest part is, what we see is only the tip of the iceberg, the majority of this site remains unexcavated.
Finishing the trip here provides even more appreciate for this unbelievable civilization. Walking among these historical footsteps and just imagining what life was like here gives me such an an amazing energy, and a feeling that I’m honestly gunna miss. I love this stuff.
Please leave a comment if you've read this far so I can thank you personally! 😃
WATCH THE FULL TRAVEL DEEPER MEXICO SERIES HERE:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrW9CmPSCD6rG_MIxw4xYg6xVlU4vyDHV
———————
🌎 20% OFF MY TRAVEL HACKING COURSE WITH CODE: “YOUTUBE”
traveldeeperbootcamp.com/
👕 TRAVEL DEEPER MERCH
https://traveldeeper.shop
📸 IMPROVE YOUR PHOTOS WITH MY LIGHTROOM PRESETS
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📚 10 BOOKS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE
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🎵 COPYRIGHT FREE MUSIC FOR CREATORS [Music I use for every video]
bit.ly/My-YouTube-Music
⚙️ MY CAMERA GEAR & TRAVEL ESSENTIALS
tourist2townie.com/travel-accessories
————————
WHO AM I?
Hi! My name is Gareth Leonard, an American Travel YouTuber with a passion for slow, meaningful Travel. I have spent the past 12+ years traveling around the world while creating travel vlogs to help inspire and educate people to “Travel Deeper.”
If you enjoy my work, please subscribe to this channel and turn on the notifications bell to stay up-to-date with my travel deeper adventures.
Daily updates can also be found on my Instagram Stories (@traveldeeper), so if you’ve read this far, send me a DM with the “🦊” emoji so I know you’re a real one!
Thanks for following along! 🙏
p.s. Don't forget to subscribe and hit that notifications bell, it helps a ton!
#MexicanCaribbean #TravelDeeper #Mexico #Bacalar #Chetumal #MayanRuins #TravelVlog #GarethLeonard
