We haven't been online for the last few days so here's our catch up....
We visited
Templo Mayor [above], an excavated aztec pyramid right in the middle of
Mexico City (Districto Federal as the locals call it) only discovered in 1978 prior to that a bookstore was above it! This is a serpent decoration at the foot of the pyramid.
Next we went on to
Merida, Yucatan and the ruins of
Uxmal - this is the governor's palace, the highest building for the highest in rank od the society and a great example of Puuc style architecture.
The details and brickwork on the buildings at
Uxmal were amazing and very well preserved. The Margherita's at the nearby restaurant were just as good!!
Merida's anthropological museum, originally a mansion of one of the town's elite built just before the Mexican revolution in 1911.
Izamal, outside of Merida, is a city of entirely yellow buildings, this is entrance to the
Convento de San Antonio de Padua, built in the 1500s over a Mayan temple. You can actually see Mayan carvings on some of the stones in the pavement.
The
CHICHEN ITZA! These are the most popular ruins in Mexico [although we thought Uxmal was better preserved] this is the main temple
El Castillo [with Barney trying earnestly to steal it's thunder]
This is the
Gran Juego de Palota where captives played a brutal ball game kind of a cross between soccer and basketball where the goal was to get the ball through the tiny little hoop up there on the wall - the losing team was sacrificed or decapitated.
The ruins of
Tulum are set amongst tropical beachside paradise overlooking the Caribbean sea. These ruins are now ruled by these guys....
Literally hundreds of
Iguana's lounge over the rocks of the stone temples and fortifications.
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