{"id":151,"date":"2011-01-04T09:36:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T14:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/?p=151"},"modified":"2011-01-08T13:49:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T18:49:33","slug":"the-vicious-duende-plus-sleeping-on-a-mayan-ruin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/2011\/01\/the-vicious-duende-plus-sleeping-on-a-mayan-ruin","title":{"rendered":"The Vicious Duende plus Sleeping on a Mayan Ruin"},"content":{"rendered":"

All the other tourists had left, so when we took off, Mirador was a ghost town.<\/p>\n

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We hiked and rode to Nakb\u00e9<\/em>, a less-visited ruin site 3 hours southeast of Mirador. We set up hammocks on the top of the big “Lizard” pyramid. Jim got the best spot.<\/p>\n

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The highlight of the day was learning about the Guatemalen legend of the duende<\/em>, a dwarf that wears a sombrero and steals your cigarettes and hides your stuff when you’re not looking. He looks like a child sometimes, or he can take the form of people that you know. We got as many different descriptions of the duende <\/em>as the number of guides & guards we asked.<\/p>\n

Other important business of the day included journaling and pedicures on top of the pyramid.<\/p>\n

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Also, harassing the “ant lion” creatures that build craters and wait for a hapless ant to walk by. We fed this one a spider that was crawling on me.<\/p>\n

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Obligatory sunset shots.<\/p>\n

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And self-portrait.<\/p>\n

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All the other tourists had left, so when we took off, Mirador was a ghost town. We hiked and rode to Nakb\u00e9, a less-visited ruin site 3 hours southeast of Mirador. We set up hammocks on the top of the big “Lizard” pyramid. Jim got the best spot. The highlight of the day was learning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guatemala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blakeboles.com\/travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}