Blogs from Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico, North America

Hannable's experience at Coba was antithetical to our previous experience at Tulum! The tallest of structures there were open for the public to climb! There weren't so many tourists! We finally felt a powerful inexplicable "energy!" We also began getting into some of the more fascinating mythology of the ancient Maya, most notably the lore of the "Gigantes" (literal Giants as in 8 to 11 ft. people) Noble had a "psychic" premonition whilst walking the trail to one of the archeological sites at Coba. The experience went as follows: I (Noble) was simply walking down the path to the next set of ruins on our journey. I was thinking about the physical construction of the huge complexes and how it was accomplished. Suddenly, I got an image of a very large brown man holding in one ... read more

Hola amigos! just to update you on our situation here, since we are stuck waiting over an hour for a bus at the moment. Today we are in Cobá, but i will start where i left off last time. We caught the free bus from our hostel, The Weary Traveller (which was pretty average really, but they raved about it in lonely planet-second night there we had a full dorm and one of the older guys was keeping us up all night coughing his lungs out and peeing with the door open in the bathroom so it echoed round the whole bloody room! but anyway...) the bus dropped us about 1km from the Tulum ruins-at the beach. We walked up the road to find a few giant tours of people had just arrived-yay!>not! but the ruins ... read more

Heute beschliesse ich nach Cobá zu fahren. Dort befindet sich eine bekannte Maya-Staette mit einer Pyramide welche erklettert werden kann. Mit dem Bus ist es eine gemuetliche Fahrt von einer Stunde. Aus dem Bus ausgestiegen unterhalte ich mich mit Taha, einem Tourist aus London. Da er am naechsten Tag nach Kuba weiterfliegt gebe ich ihm diesbezueglich einige Tipps. Ebenso gebe ich ihm einige Adressen von Privatunterkuenften in welchen wir (Diego & ich) letztes Jahr abgestiegen sind (die Adressen habe ich bei mir da ich ja Mitte November nochmals fuer 3 Wochen nach Kuba fliege). Anschliessend schaue ich mir die ganze Anlage an. Diese erstreckt sich ueber ein weitlaeufiges Gelaende. Die einzelnen Ruinen sind mit schattigen Dschungelpfaden verbunden. Es ist moeglich Raeder auszuleihen oder von einem Radtaxi gefahren zu werden. Da ich mic... read more

Vandaag in Coba. Luka is steendood en dus blijven we 's middags in ons klein kamertje bij zeer lieve vrouwen. De dag nadien vertrekken we vroeg richting de ruines van Coba, minder bekend maar gelegen in een prachtig natuurreservaat. Omdat het gebied zo uitgestrekt is besluiten we mountainbikes te huren en zo langs de kleine paadjes te fietsen door de jungle. Het is bloedheet en vochtig, maar Luka geniet vanuit haar rugzak van het frisse windje. Leuk.... read more

Valladolid, Yucatàn, a 4 de octubre del 2009. Saludos a todos. Siguiendo con el afàn de conocer edificios viejos, hoy me di una vuelta por Cobà, que queda a medio camino entre Tulum, Q.R., y Valladolid, Yucatàn. Se tratò de una ciudad aùn màs vieja que Chichèn Itzà y aùn màs pequeña y con menos edificios, en la que hay que caminar mucho para llegar a cada uno de los edificios. Pero, a pesar de ello, el gran atractivo de este lugar es la "gran piràmide", porque: 1) Se trata de la piràmide màya màs grande de la penìnsula de Yucatàn (46 metros), muy por encima del Castillo de Chichèn Itzà (25 metros) y, ademàs, 2) Se puede subir hasta la cima (bueno, se podìa). El lugar no està tan turìsticamente desarrollado como Tulum y otros ... read more

Coba, 17-01-1990. Coba is also an old and ancient mayan ruin side, though not as well excavated as Chichen Itza. Most of the piramides and other ruins are still mostly covered plants and trees. We have come to the conclusion that 25.00 mexican peso a night for a double room is the cheapest price we can get for accomodation and raelly quite a bit above our budget, can't be changed! We have some serious plans to actually camp out on top of one of these piramides here in Coba. ... read more

Coba, 18-01-1990. This trip is not like any other trip i have made before. The high costs make it necesary for us to live on a budget, not something i am used to! Travelling together has certain advantages but also certain disadvantages. James is very keen on double dating like we did a few nights ago with these due signorine dÌtalia. The poor bloke has always been extremely shy around women i after our double dating back in Valladolid i have come to the conclusion James expects me not just to talk my way into the pants on one lady but talk us both into the pants of both ladies, not really sure why he does not do his own bloody chatting up instead. However apart from the woman thing we do get on well together. ... read more

The grounds of Coba extend at least 50 square km. and are set in lush tropical jungle with only an estimated 5 % unearthed. There are about 40 sacbeobs - a network of extensive stone-paved avenues - passing through Coba. One of them running all the way to the mayan settlement of Yaxuna, nearly a 100 km. away. Probably 40.000 mayans lived here at its heyday 600 AD to 900 AD. It is unknown why the site was abandoned!!! ... read more