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| Chichen Itza |
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| Our hotel in Merida, Yucatan |
The Casa San Angel Hotel Boutique is a dreamy place with a center coutyard covered in beautiful artwork and flowering vines.
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Off to Chichen Itza
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| Our Chichin Itza guide Wilber |
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| This is a Ceynote (limestone sinkhole pool) |
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| This guy is Chac-mool |
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| Getting my barter on |
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| Blue Crowned Motmot - spectacular. Tail is long, but then has an additional extension - ending in two blue feathers. |
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| I'm as cool as iguana be |
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| Big Tailed Grackle - very noisy birds! |
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| Social Flycatcher |
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| Plaza de Santa Lucia church |
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| My new friend, Juanita |
Mayan, not Mexican, music and dancing at Santa Lucia park on Thursdays. Mayan Pride!
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| The Cathedral. At the bottom of the picture can you see the "hoop" extended on the stick in front of the Cathedral? There was a ceremony with fire, rattles shaking and ball players, nearly naked and covered in paint, feathers and animal skins, to recreate the ball game played by the Mayans in the ball fields near the pyramid. "The captains of the winning team and the losing team were both killed...one with honors and one without." |
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| We sat exactly there, in the stands on the left. The crowd roared when the ball went through the hoop, which was hit with the hip...no hands or feet allowed. |
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| The Flamboyanes trees (or Flame Trees) line the roads and make for amazing scenery. Some are magnificent! |
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| The Mayan observatory |
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| The Columns |
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| The new Museum of Mayan life and geological history sits right on the site of a meteorite. |
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| The Mayan Observatory, framed in the doorway of the lovely Mayaland resort hotel |
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| The Mayan ball field. See the small hoop at the top of the right-side wall? |
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| Cool dude Chac-mool |
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| On Montejo Avenida where the Spanish mansions still stand |
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| Ceynote |
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| Figuring out how to buy avocados and bananas |
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| Saw a total of 4 iguanas. |
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