We booked a tour to Uxmal at 9 am. I forgot to put on deodorant and asked our guides to turn back because "I had forgotten something". I felt bad, but it was 100 degrees and we wouldn't get home until 5. We were only a block away, and there wasn't anyone else in the van yet. We met a couple from Holland and another from Italy. Uxmal was cool, pretty big, but you couldn't climb on anything. There were dogs everywhere at Kabah. We didn't get to eat lunch until 2:30, I nearly perished. The food was ok, chicken with rice, tortillas, sopa de lima (aka bone soup in this case), and flan, which was really good.
That night we went to the central plaza to watch local youth dance in Mayan dress. It was very good and the teenaged dancers seemed to be having a good time. The evening events (there is some sort of musical event every night in Merida) were well attended. We attributed this this to both a strong sense of community and the fact that everyone's houses were probably boiling in the evening.
Aaron at our hostel, the building was huge and had all sorts of funny quirks to it.
Like this bathroom with its huge doors, and the big curving step that halfway cut into two of the stalls. I only almost died twice.
Uxmal, when our guide clapped in front of this pyramid, the sound changed and it sounded like the call of a quetzal. They don't know if this was intentional when the structure was built or not.
These are the face of a god, and the appendages are his nose.
A motmot, we kept seeing these, but this is the best picture I got of one. They are beautiful.
Kabah, so many dirty dogs there. This was a small site, and I was hot and starving at this point.
Back in Merida
From the dance that night, all 20 of the dancers matched. They danced well and always with a smile.
1 comment:
nice catch on the dog picture :) got to love the mangies!
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