Yucatan & Chiapas:Scorpions, bats and pyramids

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March 6th 2010

Published: March 6th 2010

For that trip, one of my goals was to find scorpions or tarantulas and take pictures of them. I can't help it, I love these critters!! I succeeded with the scorpions! I found one in the jungle at night, and the second one, my wife found it in her bed! But for rest of the trip, I can tell that's it's a beautiful and varied region as for the landscapes and nature, culture, food. In Yucatan penins... Read Full Entry

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Bat cenote

That's the collapse cenote where you see thousands of bats emerging. See the video

Palenque

Contrarely to other Maya sites, there's a sarcophagus in one of the buildings. There are all kinds of theories about this...

Oxkintok

Little black iguana on the wall

San Cristobal de las Casas

with the altitude, the climate is cool which was a relief, from the day before.

Pecari

Saw around 50 pecaris, or wild pigs, on the road to Calakmul. See the video.

San Cristobal de las Casas

That's the bright yellow cathedral

Oxkintok

Mot-mot bird. I wasn't able to get a picture of the entire bird, but you can see it's nice.

Scorpion in the bed

My wife found it for me :-)

wild turkeys in Calakmul

San Cristobal de las Casas

We visited the Amber museum in the city. There are really beautiful scultures made of amber in museum. To buy amber, you need to know a coule of things...

Merida

Governor's palace. Colonial building with lots of paintings inside.

Scorpion in the bed

Chiapa de Corzo

Big colonial foutain in the center of town

Merida

Still in governor's palace: painting showing that Mayas were working as slaves in the Henequen business.

Cows are coming

Local cowboys in Tabaso, decide to move the big herd of cows directly on the highway. That made a nice video!

Zocalo in Merida

Canon de Sumidero

The "V" shape is actually the one you saw on the flag of Chiapas

Campeche

That's a clean and nice city. Fortifications to visit, nice buildings, and breeze from the ocean

Cenotes de Cuzama

Half the fun is taking the little wagons, that were used in Henequen plantations

Campeche

Status showing spaniards and mayas

Calakmul

Pyramid in the jungle. Trees are growing on th epyramid.

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