See Belize through the eyes of Jay Hersh, author of Mundo Maya: Revenge of the Jaguar King

This gallery contains images which accompany the

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novel. They are organized roughly in the order in which you might encounter something comparable in the book. I hope they prove helpful to you in visualizing the experiences and adventures faced by my characters.
Follow this link and look for "Sounds of Belize" to hear some of the many sounds of the forests of Belize (Courtesy of Chaa Creek Lodge).

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Belize Airport

The airport looked like something from the late 1950s or early 1960s when Western modernist and Soviet utilitarian design almost seemed to converge for a moment.

Map of Belize

Ornate Eagle at the Belize Zoo	Kinkajou at the Belize Zoo	Black Jaguar at the Belize Zoo	Black Jaguar at the Belize Zoo
A leaping viper, the second most poisonous snake in Belize	Coatimundis may look harmless...	but they'll steal your lunch in a second if you're not careful	A howler monkey, click here to hear the sound they make
A typical main lodge at a Belize resort	Another representation of the Mayan Calendars	Map of Caracol	Model of the ruins at Caracol in the small museum there
Looking down from the top of the Canaa at Caracol	Small secondary temple located on top of the Canaa at Caracol	Oncoing excavations at Caracol	Oncoing excavations at Caracol
Fiberglass Cast of Jaguar Frieze at Caracol	Original Jaguar Frieze at Caracol	A previously looted house mound at Caracol	A leaf cutter ant on the march
Canoeing inside an underground river	The pyramid called "El Castillo" at Xunantunich	The view from the top of "El Castillo" at Xunantunich	A Mayan "sacbe" or white road leads to a small temple
A ceiba, the sacred Mayan tree of life	Closer view of a ceiba tree	Though the Canaa at Caracol is not as tall as temple 1 at Tikal, its stairs are just as steep	What the ruins at Buena Vista look like
Carnivorous Mushrooms	A mottmott bird in flight	A mottmott bird rests in the forest	Wild turkeys as the black jaguar, Kevin and Santos might have seen them
An example of what the eastern temple at El Pilar might have looked like (from Tikal)	Another example of what the eastern temple at El Pilar might have looked like (from Dzibilchaltun)	Another example of what the eastern temple at El Pilar might have looked like (from Xcambo)	An idea of what a small structure built atop a temple mound might look like
An ornately carved facade comprises the front of a temple at Uxmal	Ball Court at Caracol	Ball Court at Ek Balam	Ornately carved goal ring of the ball court at Chichen Itza. Goal rings at most ball courts were not positioned so high above the ground
Ball Court Stela at Caracol	Ball Court Stela at Lubaantun	The "Prisoner's" Stela at Caracol	A Stela at Caracol
A "Monumental" Stela about 15 feet tall	Another "Monumental" Stela	The "Warriors" Stela at Xunantunich	Cutaway view of a temple with an underground tomb accessed by an internal stairway
What a Maya Warrior in battle dress looked like	The type of pottery jar that would have been in the tomb at El Pilar	Jade Mask found at Santa Rita in Corozal District, Belize	The Jade Mask of Hanab Pakal found at Palenque

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Travel photographs of Mayan cultural sites & artifacts in Central America by George and Audrey DeLange

Travel photographs of Mayan cultural sites & artifacts in Mexico by George and Audrey DeLange

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