Video: Dzibilchaltún as you’ve never seen it before
ByYucatán Magazine
With his trusty camera and scrupulously legal use of our drone, El Gato Volador, (shooting from the highway with a telephoto lens and digitally enhanced), Yucatán Magazine Editor Carlos Rosado van der Gracht has come away with a most fascinating seven-minute video of Dzibilchaltún.
Most visitors make quick work of visiting one of Yucatán’s more intriguing and popular archaeological sites. But for the more adventurous, the site is much more than the famous Temple of the Seven Dolls and its beautiful cenote.
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