The following 3 posts were started last year. It's a rainy day here so a good time for memories.
Edzna
We signed up for a tour of Edzna. The ruins are outside of Campeche. We were the only ones to sign up for the tour so it was a private tour. A very amazing place. Pretty much all excavated and reconstructed.
The main square pyramid. If we had been Mayans this is where we would have lived, no doubt!
The carving still has the paint and color on it. Pretty amazing after 1,000 or so years.
We think there were only a couple of people at the ruins besides us.
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| A jade burial mask found at one of the jillions of places we want to see, Calakmul. Calakmul is a huge swath of preserved land in Mexico and Guatamala. |
This is a carved column. The rock is volcanic and since there's no volcanos on the Yucatan penninsula, it had to have been transported here. It probably cme from Guatamala or Hunduras. But, of course, the mystery is how was this 12 foot hunk of stone get moved? Ed says aliens!
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