1. Ceiba or Silk Cotton tree2. Village house
3. Mayan local
4. river inside jungle
Photos are taken by my husband Debrup Chakraborty.
After visiting Bonampak pyramids we visited the Lacandon rain forest where Mayan ,rather Lacandon Mayans still live in their secluded communities. The Lacandons are the descendent of the ancient Mayans. They still rever their old cultures and customs and live as before in their village. They could survive the Spanish because of their living deep inside the forests. Now approximately 700 people can speak Lacandon Mayan which resembles Yucatec Maya. We got the oppertunity to see a Lacandon house,a walk inside the forest where we noticed many undiscovered pyramids lying deep inside the forest ,some waterfalls ,and varried trees and insects and butterflies. We were told Jaguars are also there but not in the part we were visiting. Among many tress in the jungle Ceiba is worth mentioning because of its size. These people has demonstrated the subsistence farming inside the forest area for the preservation and conservation of the tropical forest ecosystem. since they depend on it at various levels like fishing,wood,hunting so its preservation has been key.
