Cayo Scoop! The Ecology of Cayo Culture

Channel 7 interviewed Dr. Jaime Awe about the Caracol camping trip for the Vernal Equinox.

"One of those ideas of mine was why not celebrate the solstice and the equinox up at one of the archaeological sites, and the reason for that is that 2012 is all about the end of a cycle, and the start of another, and so the solstices and equinox are cycles of time. By doing this event here, I felt that it was going to be unique, special, and authentic. And then, to combine the native priests doing their ceremonies in the morning, for me, the number one purpose of this is to make not just Belizeans, but they world become aware of Belize's Maya heritage. And I think that I may have said to you before that I think this heritage belongs to the people of the world, not just for Belizeans. I feel privileged that we in Belize are custodians of this human past, and it's a great past. The Maya developed this civilization that equal to all the great civilizations of the world, and so for me it's bringing that awareness, not just to Belize, to everybody. All our information about 2012 indicated that it was going to be the end of this great cycle, very much like the year 2000, which you know, we did a lot of 'hoopla' about it. You remember, you know - people saying that the computers are going to crash, and this going to happen, get your money out of the banks. And at the end what happened was that we ended this millennia and started the next one. And so, I said, 'Guess what, to the Maya the world was going to, it was going to be the end of this cycle, and then, it would start again."