stairway down

Cenote and Chichen Itza

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June 8th 2011
An early morning start. At 7:30 am we were getting into a shuttle and we would not be back until 8 pm. The drive to Chichen Itza from Cancun is about 2 1/2 hours if you go straight there which we did not. We headed first to the cenote. Our guide was Santos. Our drive was Ricardo Martinez....I think. Our driver was laughing so it was hard to tell if it was just Ricardo or Martinez or both be ... read more

North America » Mexico » Yucatán » Chichén Itzá

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The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more