Uxmal Travel Blogs

Uxmal, (Built Three Times), (Yucatec Maya: "oxmáal), is a large Maya site located 34 miles south of Mérida on Highway 261. Many buildings have been consolidated and restored. Currently little in the way of serious archeological excavation and research has been done at Uxmal. Accurate dates …

Uxmal, "Built Three Times", (Yucatec Maya: "oxmáal), is a large Maya site located 34 miles south of Mérida on Highway 261. Many buildings have been consolidated and restored. Currently little in the way of serious archeological excavation and research has been done at Uxmal. Accurate dates of occ…

  In our guidebook we had found a car rental which charged a very acceptable 30 bucks per day for a Beetle - that's quite a change from the 83 we had to pay in Campeche yesterday! One of the conditions was that the entire amount had to be paid in advance, so we went to an exchange office to …

Uxmal, "Built Three Times", (Yucatec Maya: Óoxmáal), is a large Maya site located 34 miles south of Mérida on Highway 261. Many buildings have been consolidated and restored. Currently little in the way of serious archeological excavation and research has been done at Uxmal. Acurate dates of…

Uxmal, "Built Three Times", (Yucatec Maya: "oxmáal), is a large Maya site located 34 miles south of Mérida on Highway 261. Many buildings have been consolidated and restored. Currently little in the way of serious archeological excavation and research has been done at Uxmal. Accurate dates of…

Uxmal, "Built Three Times", (Yucatec Maya: Óoxmáal), is a large Maya site located 34 miles south of Mérida on Highway 261. Many buildings have been consolidated and restored. Currently little in the way of serious archeological excavation and research has been done at Uxmal. Acurate dates of…

Hola a todos, Last night we met some french people who invited us to go with them by car to visit Uxmal. So we got up early and made our bags and while waiting for them we went on the internet to get Pauline´s finals results (77%). Then when teh french people were ready we got into the car and hi…

Uxmal, "Built Three Times", (Yucatec Maya: "oxmáal), is a large Maya site located 34 miles south of Mérida on Highway 261. Many buildings have been consolidated and restored. Currently little in the way of serious archeological excavation and research has been done at Uxmal. Acurate dates of …

11.25.08 Campeche to Uxmal   Terrific day!  We loved Campeche and drove along the waterfront on our way out of town this morning. The road was not particularly busy at 8:30 am and the roads all the way to Uxmal were excellent!  We were going 55 mph for nearly all of it, sometimes f…

Uxmal, "Built Three Times", (Yucatec Maya: "oxmáal), is a large Maya site located 34 miles south of Mérida on Highway 261. Many buildings have been consolidated and restored. Currently little in the way of serious archeological excavation and research has been done at Uxmal. Accurate dates of…

Traveling throughout Mexico. We flew into Cancun and then drove through the Yucatan.

The next morning we left for the long journey from Mérida to Palenque. But not without several sight seeings off course. First thing we visisted Uxmal in the morning. Uxmal is a large pre-Columbian ruined city of the Maya civilization. It is 78 km south of Mérida or 110 km from that city on Highw…

What to say - beautiful :-)

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!

Yucatan.