Mision Uxmal

The bus was late, again.<br><br>And the site closes at 5pm, so that I had 1h30 to visit. And it's big.<br><br>As you enter you find yourself face to face with this big pyramid, the main structure, and a preview of the surrounding jungle (with iguanas and birds 'n all). Impressive.<br>The rest of the site is made of ...

... ljudi, ptice in krize. Zanimiv je bil tudi kip dvoglavega jaguarja in pa ogromno kuscarjev, ki so se sprehajali naokoli ali pa se soncili po rusevinah. Ob vecerih tukaj priredijo vsak dan show z glasbo in svetlobnimi efekti, vendar nama je ogled tega prekrizal dez....Sva si pa v blizini ogledala vhod in del ene izmed najvecjih jam na Yucatanu Calcehtok. Za ogled celotne jame potrebujes strokovnega vodica in pa kar nekaj casa ter dobro opremo.

... both are beside the highway as you bypass the village. The nicest is the Flycatcher Inn which is set in beautiful surroundings, 100 metres off Mex 261 - opposite ...

... with even numbers going north to south and odd numbered streets going east to west. <br><br>Transport <br><br>Ticul´s bus station is situated on Calle 24 between Calle 25 and 25a. Buses and colectivo´s run every 30 minutes for the 90 minute journey to Merida and every 15 minutes for the 20 minute journey to Oxkutzcab. There are plenty of colectivo´s leaving for the 15 minute ...

This morning we are off again, the first stop is at the Mayan ruins of Kabah. We are now in the middle of the heart of the Mayan buildings in the peninsular and these buildings are linked by a 20 km road to our next site at Uxmal. At the start of this road is a huge archway, also at the site we can see a large complex that they think was a soldier's barracks and off to the side the prize exhibit of the site a temple with a 100 metre front covered in mask ...

... in a pleasing manner. Probably most notable of the structure is the happily-named 'Codz Poop', which has the long-nosed image of the rain god Chaac repeated ad infinitum across the façade. Kabáh looks to have been a large city, most of it not restored. We wandered away from the main site a bit and found a large ceremonial arch of the type described above (this bit restored), and a few more ruined structures out in the jungle. The third site was Yasil ...

... that it lacks the visceral appeal of Palenque. Uxmal is probably most famous for its Pyramid of the Magician, as our book translates it, though I've also seen it translated as Pyramid of the Soothsayer. The Spanish is 'Pirámide del Adivino', which sounds sounds to me more like 'Pyramid of the One Who Determines Ahead of Time', so I'll believe the 'soothsayer' translation. But what do I know. But I digress. The pyramid is one of the most unique in the Mayan ...

... had...(it was much slower going down...and i hate heights)...Uxmal was so clam and it hardly had any tourists....It just had it ancient feel to it, very cool and it was cheap to get to. I made sure I climbed on every thing possible, and I felt like i was 8 years old all over again exploring the outer areas of the site.....moving on....

... I did meet a lot of people and had a few good days there. I wanted to travel from Meridan to Palenque but the buses were full so I decided to go to Campeche . Someone had told me it wasn't a particularly nice place or worth the journey but as it was sort of en-route to Palenque I thought I would take the risk. Campeche was actually the nicest place in the Yucatan which I visited, it is a small colonial town built inside a ...