Egg Telling
Monday, July 16th, 2007No cofee. No Tarot, nor any other cards. Not the palms of the hands and not the liver of a cow. The Maya people read fortunes in eggs.
Archive for the 'Travels' Category
Nice Town
Sunday, July 15th, 2007San Cristobal De Las Casas, San Cristobal at short, was recommended to us by literrally everybody we talked with about Mexico. Indeed, it proved to be a very pleasant town.
Palenque
Sunday, July 15th, 2007Palenque, once a great Mayan city, surprised me. It seems like a fusion between Chichen-Itza and Tikal, yet it is distinctly different from both of them; with its huge palace, combined temple complex, and - of course - pyramids, this ancient city stands unique.
Long Way, Interesting Stops
Thursday, July 12th, 2007The city of Valladolid, which I described in a previous post, is built of a square grid of streets, forming rather big blocks - cuadras in spanish - which are further divided into multiple houses. At least, most of them are. Not the one, unique, block, some 4 blocks from the center, which we found accidentally while going to a laundry store to pick our cloths.
Mouth of the Water Sorcerer
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007Chichen Itza, the mouth of the water sorcerer in the local Mayan tongue, is a very impressive site. A few centuries later then Tikal, the sophistication is simply uncomparable.
Pictures from Tikal
Monday, July 9th, 2007Just some pictures from Tikal area. Press on the pictures to enlarge them. (more…)
Fish Below, Bats Above
Monday, July 9th, 2007Cenote, a stalactite cave typical of the Yucatan area, is formed mainly by underground system of rivers. Cenotes are very typical of Yucatan, and the highlight of today was without doubt our visit to one, namely the Cenote X´keken, near the city of Valladolid, where we now are.
God Provides Nuts
Saturday, July 7th, 2007We went to a show at the Coco-Bongo club.
Courage to Quit
Thursday, July 5th, 2007We celebrated our arrival at the Careebean on the most natural way: yesterday evening we saw the sunset while bathing in the sea, and later we had dinner at a Cuban restaurant, grabbing the creole atmosphere on our first day to Isla Mujeres, Island of the Ladies, off the shore of Cancun.
Piramids In The Jungle
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007The Maya city of Tikal flourished for about a millenia: the earliest findings date back to around 200b.c.e., but the most impressive piramids date to the 7th and 8th century, to the time of kings that bore names like “Jaguar Paw”, “Curle Nose”, or “Lord Cacao”. The site, at its peak a city whose population is estimated at some 40,000 people, was abandoned towards the end of the first millenia, at the decline of the so-called “Maya Classic Period”. It remained unknown, deep in the Peten reainforest, for almost a thousand years. The jungle was slowly taking over, until it was accidentally rediscovered at the late 19th century, its piramids peaking above the forest canopies.
