Kom is an amazing, sprawling site and this wonderful building (and a few others around it) sits at the top of a long climb straight up. In the Puuc area, arable land was highly valued, so most buildings sit not in the valleys, but atop rocky outcroppings or, in this case high atop a hill. One can imagine that the view from here would give you oversight and control over all the surrounding valleys.
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At the end of November, I took my third trip to Mexico since 2014 to photograph Mayan ruins. I visited a number of ruins not open to the public, overgrown and hidden in the jungle, in order to continue working on my series of infrared images of Mayan Ruins (you can more of these on my website). Many people think that the large ruins (Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Labna, Sayil, etc.) comprise the totality of Mayan civilization in the Yucatan, but there are literally hundreds of smaller or satellite cities spread throughout Yucatan and Campeche. These are the ruins that draw me - beautiful, sometimes remote, ruins, partially overgrown, but still standing after more than a thousand years.
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