Imagine a war that never really ended. A fight that continues not through bullets, but through whispered prayers, candlelit altars, and secret rituals deep in the jungle. In the heart of the Yucatán Peninsula, the legacy of the Mayan Caste War is very much alive — not in textbooks, but in tradition.

From above, Pulau Bungin resembles a jigsaw puzzle of rooftops tightly packed into the sea. No trees. No open fields. Just houses—hundreds of them—squeezed together so tightly that even alleyways feel like afterthoughts. Welcome to one of the most densely populated islands in the world, hiding quietly in the lesser-traveled waters of Indonesia.