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Although I had been briefly to Mexico before, it was mainly to get a shave and some decent food and I didn't see any noteworthy sites.

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Raphaelk
2004-01-28 21:14:12

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Although I had been briefly to Mexico before, it was mainly to get a shave and some decent food and I didn't see any noteworthy sites. When I returned I made a point of seeing what I regarded as some of the more important sites in Mexico, although with a country that large and with the limited time I had, there was only a limited amount I got to see. Whilst on this visit to Mexico the weather was not co-operative and although not particularly wet, it was consistently overcast almost throughout my entire visit, which was not particularly helpful for taking photos.

After crossing the border from Belize I headed up the Yucatan peninsula to the town of Tulum, site of a Mayan town in a reasonable state of preservation as it is not particularly old, dating from the fourteenth century. It is quite a small site, but it does have a particularly lovely location next to the Caribbean.

Possibly the most famous of the Mayan sites on the Yucatan is Chichen Itza (meaning "Mouth if the well of the water-sorcerer") which was built principally between the seventh and tenth centuries. The site is large with temples and other buildings littered over quite a wide area. The most imposing of the buildings is El Castillo which sits proudly in the centre of the complex. Inside there is a room with some statues one being a red painted jaguar and the other a green statue of some god The views from the top give a good vantage around the site to the ballcourt, the temple of a thousand columns and various other buildings. At the bottom of the staircase to El Castillo lots of people spent too much time clapping and smiling, at first thinking they might be undercover Hare Krishnas, then deciding they were nutters on day release from the institution the group I was with thought we should see what the bloody hell all these freaks were up to. So we did a couple of surreptitious little claps and heard some pings coming back from the pyramid, we gave it ...

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