Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid hit Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, unleashing an energy that has been revered by ancient civilizations and transfixed generations of hippies and healers. Now, amid Instagram shamans and roadside plant medicine, the Maya elders are having to re-emerge to properly enlighten today’s spiritual scene. 

Photographed for Belmond Hotels’ magazine, ‘Mondes’. The global compass on modern culture, ‘Mondes’ taps into the best of timeless travel through the lens of some of the world’s most renowned creatives.