Tourist attraction
Portal Maya
Towering bronze arch of two joined figures by the beach, marking the Maya calendar date of 2012.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Portal Maya, the bronze arch on the beach in Playa del Carmen, is about the date etched into it and the calendar behind that date. It follows the Maya astronomers who counted days in vast nested cycles, and a student in the Guatemalan jungle in twenty ten following looters' trenches toward a buried house. Best heard standing just in front of the arch, with the sea at your back.
This audio guide was created using AI.