Culture, starting with the fact that the Maya are not a past tense
Maya is the second most spoken indigenous language in Mexico, with hundreds of thousands of speakers in the peninsula today. The sites are not a lost civilisation’s leftovers; they are the built history of people who are still here, serving you lunch and running the cooperative that guides the reserve. That framing changes how the visit goes.
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