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  • Chichen Itza, Mexico - El Castillo pyramid in Chichen Itza. 1200 years ago, it was a vital hub in a Maya network of quarreling, trading, and warring city states, that covered southern Mexico and the northern half of Central America.
  • Chichen itza, Mexico - Pyramid at Chichen Itza.
  • Chichen Itza, Mexico - View from the top of the pyramid. Like the rest of the Maya society, Chichen Itza had monumental architecture, writing, and a sophisticated culture that rivaled anything in the world at the time.
  • Pist, Mexico - Ropes team work hard under the rain and flood at Cenote Holtun. The team has been trying to find out more about the modern apocalypse by diving to the bottom of the deep and dangerous Cenote Holtun.
  • Homun, Mexico - Guillermo de Anda enters cenote San Antonio. The cenotes are considered a very holy place as the entrance to the underworld.
  • Pist, Mexico - Inside view from cenote Holtun. The openings to the cenote are believed to be thousands of years old, created at the hands of the Maya.
  • Pist, Mexico - Inside view from cenote Holtun. The Mayan got their water from these cenotes, which were created when the limestone surface collapsed.exposing pools that descend down hundreds of feet.
  • Pist, Mexico - Eric Berkenpas works with National Geographic sun spheres. These sun spheres will light up the abyss of the cenote like never before.
  • Merida, Mexico - Reenactment shot of a Maya family. A growing group of individuals is readying themselves for a global collapse that mirrors what happened to the Maya more than a thousand years ago.
  • Pist, Mexico - Guillermo de Anda and Host Diego Buuel at cenote Holtun. Diego has covered more than 10 wars, explored radioactive wastelands, and climbed high in the Himalayas, but this particular journey has a special resonance with him. As a father, he wants to know if his kids will make it to Christmas?

  • El Castillo

    Photograph by NGT

    Chichen Itza, Mexico - El Castillo pyramid in Chichen Itza. 1200 years ago, it was a vital hub in a Maya network of quarreling, trading, and warring city states, that covered southern Mexico and the northern half of Central America.

  • Chichen Itza

    Photograph by NGT

    Chichen itza, Mexico - Pyramid at Chichen Itza.

  • Top View

    Photograph by NGT

    Chichen Itza, Mexico - View from the top of the pyramid. Like the rest of the Maya society, Chichen Itza had monumental architecture, writing, and a sophisticated culture that rivaled anything in the world at the time.

  • Ropes Team

    Photograph by NGT

    Pisté, Mexico - Ropes team work hard under the rain and flood at Cenote Holtun. The team has been trying to find out more about the modern apocalypse by diving to the bottom of the deep and dangerous Cenote Holtun.

  • Descending into the Holy Cenote

    Photograph by NGT

    Homun, Mexico - Guillermo de Anda enters cenote San Antonio. The cenotes are considered a very holy place as the entrance to the underworld.

  • Down the Ancient Cenote

    Photograph by NGT

    Pisté, Mexico - Inside view from cenote Holtun. The openings to the cenote are believed to be thousands of years old, created at the hands of the Maya.

  • Interior View

    Photograph by NGT

    Pisté, Mexico - Inside view from cenote Holtun. The Mayan got their water from these cenotes, which were created when the limestone surface collapsed, exposing pools that descend down hundreds of feet.

  • Sun Spheres

    Photograph by NGT

    Pisté, Mexico - Eric Berkenpas works with National Geographic sun spheres. These sun spheres will light up the abyss of the cenote like never before.

  • Maya Family

    Photograph by NGT

    Merida, Mexico - Reenactment shot of a Maya family. A growing group of individuals is readying themselves for a global collapse that mirrors what happened to the Maya more than a thousand years ago.

  • Guillermo de Anda and Host Diego Buuel

    Photograph by NGT

    Pisté, Mexico - Guillermo de Anda and Host Diego Buñuel at cenote Holtun. Diego has covered more than 10 wars, explored radioactive wastelands, and climbed high in the Himalayas, but this particular journey has a special resonance with him. As a father, he wants to know if his kids will make it to Christmas?

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