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Nim Li Punit ruins.(historic sites, travel information)
- Article from:
- Belize Adventure Guide, 6th ed.
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Indian Creek is a tiny Maya village with only one guest house (beyond the village), a gas station and a small grocery store. It serves as the gateway to Nim Li Punit ruins. The ruins and guest house are 1.25 miles west of the village along a hilly road. If coming by bus, ask the driver to let you off at the road to the village and walk the rest of the way in. The walk will take about an hour.
EXPLORING THE RUINS
Nim Li Punit ruins is a small site known mainly for its stelae. Named after the longest stele found at the site, Nim Li Punit means Big Hat. That stele, which measures over 31 feet high (nine meters), had a carving on the front of a figure with a ...