"Like a huge palace or building or a huge temple, it would have had many rooms in there, multilayered rooms so you have rooms for people living, and you would also had several tombs in there of the people who lived in this area here, " Morris told 7NewsBelize.

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Among the highlights in the weeklong Pride of the South itinerary: the frescoed, gilded, and columned Mysore Palace, and the 12th-century Chennakesava Temple at Belur, 103 years in the making, with every inch covered in carvings of symbolic animals and episodes from epics.

FORBES: Photograph: Andre Fanthome (RAAS)