Blogs from Yucatán, Mexico, North America - page 2

After a quick breakfast of Cheerios we headed out for a day of exploring Mayan ruins. There was quite a bit of fog as we started our drive and I thought it would be neat to see the ruins shrouded in fog. Once we were closer to Uxmal the fog lifted and the sun came out. So no foggy pictures. Uxmal was founded around 700 and was inhabited until sometime around 1000. The city is made up of pyramids and other buildings used to honor Chac, the god of rain. The one interesting feature to me was the many cisterns they dug and used to collect rain water for the dry season. This area of the Puuc region has no natural source of water so to settle in an area without they had to figure out ... read more

By coincidence, I already had a week long trip to Merida, Mexico with my aunt and uncle planned before I won my work trip to Aruba and luckily they were right in a row. Two weeks away from the cold and snow of South Elgin is just what I need! My room at the airport hotel included breakfast. I was disappointed to learn the free breakfast did not include juice. How can you be in Florida and not have fresh orange juice with your breakfast??? I paid for it…. The room had no view and was pretty boring so I checked out and headed to the terminal at 9 for my 12:30 flight. The security line was short and I was quickly back in terminal D, where I again was about as far from my gate ... read more

Yucatán, Mexico 2009 IK KIL - Mayan Kings Bath... read more

Week five and its Merida a busy bustling colonial city. This is the culture part of the trip and we chose Merida as it gives access to two big Mayan sites, Chitzen Itza and Uxmal. After much research I decided that the latter was the better option, mainly because Chitzen Itza is in easy reach of holiday heaven Cancun and the cruise ship crowds. The temperatures in Merida were 10 °more than Nayarit but because of the buildings in the city it was still high 30 in the evenings. It definitely slowed us down but thank heavens for air conditioning and the pool. Our first day was all about getting our bearings but the city was laid out in a simple block system, even numbers north to South and odd numbers East to west. Thankfully we ... read more

Wir erreichen „The Lodge at Uxmal“ am frühen Nachmittag und genießen die schöne Anlage mit zwei Pools und den zwar etwas in die Jahre gekommenen aber schick ausgestatteten Reetdachbungalows ein paar Stunden lang fast für uns alleine. Wir sind hier dann doch wieder mitten im Dschungel, wenn auch nicht ganz so „ab vom Schuss“ wie wir es in Calakmul gewesen wären. Aber sowohl auf Handyempfang als auch auf Wlan müssen wir heute wohl verzichten. Vorsichtshalber klären wir mal ab, wo das nächste Krankenhaus wäre. Das wäre 35 Minuten entfernt, klingt nicht so ermutigend. Wir hoffen also einfach dass unser Baby gut auf die fiebersenkenden Maßnahmen reagiert und wir kein weiteres Krankenhaus benötigen werden. Außer ein paar hochpreisigen Hotels und den Ruinen der Maya-Stadt Uxmal (man spricht es Usch-mal) ist hier draußen nicht viel. Dafür ist man ... read more