Chichen Itza, Valladolid and cenote

Trip Start Apr 01, 2008
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Trip End Apr 08, 2008


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Friday, April 4, 2008

Today was the day we would spend the whole day away from the beach on a tour to the ancient city of Chichen Itza. We booked the tour on-line through YucaTrek tours. It was small group of six, Mitch the guide and the van driver.

The drive there took about 2 1/2 hours through the back country of the Yucatan. We toured the site for about 3 hours with a guide we picked up at the entrance. I can't recommend visiting this site highly enough. There are many restored and semi-restored buildings. You are no longer able to climb or enter any of the buildings, which was disappointing.

After Chichen Itza, we went to a cenote to swim and cool off. A cenote is a opening to the underground river system in the Yucatan Peninsula. There are thousands of these throughout the peninsula.

After the cenote swim we went to the colonial town of valladolid to walk around the town square and have lunch.

We got back to the resort about 7:30 PM.
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