Chichen Itza Travel Blogs - Page 6

I just created this blog so I can upload more than five pics ;)

I definitively have to write about this trip. What a tour! I went with my brother, he wanted to see El Salvador & Honduras & I Guatemala & Mexico/Yucatan & both Belize! I never had that many warnings for a trip ever! Don't do this don't do that!

I've traveled 2 Mexico a few times so far.. I've gathered only a few photos from trips to Cabo San Lucas, Cancun, Chichen Itza, Tulum, Playa Del Carmen, Akumla Bay, Cozumel, Puerto Morales, and Isla Mujeres..

11.28.08 Merida to Chichen-Itza   Successful day!  Mimi was kind enough to drive me (again) to pick up our laundry this morning that Jonna kindly dropped off yesterday for us.  For 56 pesos ($5) we got our sweet-smelling, folded clothes back.  Ahhh, service!  She also pop…

I have always been fascinated with the Mayans.  There is a certain mystique about this incredibly advanced civilization that thrived in Central America for centuries and then seemed to vanish.  Almost all of us have seen pictures of the reliefs depicting human sacrifice and menacing creat…

The Maya name "Chich'en Itza" means "At the mouth of the well of the Itza." (chi' = "mouth" or "edge", ch'e'en = "well" "Itz" = "magic" and (h)a = "water".  The Itzá were a group in the from the Tabasco and the inland water ways of Chiapas that gained political and economic dominance of t…

Chichen Itza is an ancient Mayan city on the Yucatan Peninsula. It's only mid-morning but the day is hot and humid as we reach the entrance to the city. Perhaps it's just the weather, but you feel a weight here, with the history and the events that occurred here. The center of the city is marked by…

The Maya name "Chich'en Itza" means "At the mouth of the well of the Itza." (chi' = "mouth" or "edge", ch'e'en = "well" "Itz" = "magic" and (h)a = "water".  The Itzá were a group in the from the Tabasco and the inland water ways of Chiapas that gained political and economic dominance of t…