Lodge At Uxmal
Km 78 Carretera Merida Campeche Uxmal, Yucatan Peninsula, 97844, Mexico
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Day 2
When the sun comes up, my son gets up. Because of this, so do I. As I’m getting dressed, I keeping thinking I hear “It’s a Small World” and I think to myself, we’re not in Disney anymore – I must really need this vacation because I’m going crazy. Ryan and I go down to the dining room and in the daylight …
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Una volata a Uxmal e poi ultime ore a Merida...
In piedi alle 04.50, raccattiamo tutto e lasciamo gli zaini in recepiton e ci incamminiamo verso la stazione T.A.M.E. per partire in direzione Uxmal col bus delle 06.00. Lungo il primo tratto di strada siamo avvolti da una nebbia fitta tipo valpadana... non lo avremmo proprio mai pensato di trovare nebbia in Messico!!! Arriviamo al sito dopo un ora e mezza di viaggio ed č ancora tutto chiuso... Siamo i primi! Alle 08.00 iniziamo la visita e qui le rovine sono molto pių decorate ...
Last ruins
Tuesday, 22 March
Andrei, Thomas and I woke up at 7 am in order to have some breakfast at the hostel before leaving for the last ruins of my trip - at Uxmal, ca. 45 min away from Merida. The ruins were really amazing, especially after the huge crowd of Chichen Itza the previous day : Almost no people, enough space to walk around and to breath, the right to climb most of the ruins - and of course the opoportunity to take more great pictures :-)
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Just pick a bus and go
... stop. Apparently in the 1700s the Spanish built such monstrous, oppressive-looking churches to assert power & dominance over the indigenous population (duh) and to rival the Mayan structures
in their shadow. Sometimes they even used re-purposed the Mayan buildings, using them as part of the church's architecture. Anyway, it was huge, but locked up so we couldn't peek inside. We wandered down some street that led up a hill--a rare site in this flat Yucatan state, ...
Wow!
... There weren't many people there is it almost seemed like we were alone, it is so vast. No dogs allowed at Uxmal though. I wonder why they are allowed at Ek Balam, but not here?
Russ & I hiked over to the 'cemetery'. (Not really a cemetery, just some colonist thought it looked like one. There is also the 'nunnery' name by some Spaniard, not really a nunnery.) We were all by ourselves in the ...



