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The road to Tabi is not on most maps. You simply turn off the Ruta Puuc toward the small village of Yaxhom and then follow a winding track that at first passes through ordered rows of lime and fruit trees, but soon gives way to the chaotic, dense scrub brush that chokes and obscures much of the landscape on the northern peninsula. During the rainy season this narrow dirt road carved through the bush becomes a flowing river, and the bright orange soil turns into a sticky mud that stains everything it comes into contact with. Today though it is dry and you bounce along the heavily rutted course with great anticipation as you complete each curve in the road. And just when you start to think you must have gone to the right when you should have stayed left back at that big ceiba tree, you round a bend and there it is, your first glimpse of Hacienda San Juan Bautista Tabi.
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Sweitz, S.R. (2012). Archaeological Investigations at Hacienda Tabi. In: On the Periphery of the Periphery. Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology, vol 3. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1496-4_6
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