On Wednesday, I was walking Maddy in East River Park again and she was being extra feisty with the squirrels so I decided to let her off the leash for a second.
"The best-known is "The Crystal Maiden", the skeleton of a teenage girl, possibly a sacrifice victim, whose bones have been calcified to a sparkling, crystallized appearance." You were allowed to bring cameras into here and photograph everything "In late May 2012, a tourist accidentally dropped a camera and fractured a human skull estimated to be over one thousand years old. As a result, all cameras without a permit are banned from the cave"
So, because of that person, all you get to see are pictures of the teak tree farm we had to drive through...
Locally, this tree is called a "gringo tree" because the tree's peeling bark looks like the sunburnt skin of all the white tourists. Haha. (This is all info I learned from X on my Monkey River tour!)
The weird, shiny orange tree on the right is called a gumbo limbo tree and contains the antidote to the also-local terrible poison-ivy- x-100 that you get from coming into contact Black Poisonwood tree.
It's almost easy to miss them, but if you look at the underside of the tree you see a row of bats sleeping in a vertical line! Look at the crazy "face" pattern on their backs to keep predators away! It looks like a tiny, scotty-dog face!
