"Mr. Travel" wrote in message
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"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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"Mr. Travel" wrote in message
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Calif Bill wrote:



Going to the ruins, get on a bus. Is a long day, and coming back about
80% of the people fell asleep.

Sure they fall asleep, they have nothing else to do.

We were all tired after a long day in the sun.


If you take the tour you can be led around Chichin Itza like you're
part of a herd of cattle, by a guide who will fill you full of
information, not all of which is accurate. You'll have ample opportunity
to sleep on the way back to Cancun. If you drive yourself you can see:
Chichin Itza, the Balanchanche cave and Ek Balam, or some other
combination of ruins, in a day and drive back to the coast without
falling asleep. I've done it a number of times. Better still you can
spend the night in Piste or Valladolid or Merida and see a lot more than
"the ruins".

TB

I prefer Coba, since there were far less people compared when I drove
there.

All of the ruins add something to the puzzle and help to understand
the people who made them. They also make a great excuse to get into odd
corners of Mexico. I like Coba as a nature walk. There's lots of wildlife to
be seen on the site and in the nearby lake. For me Coba doesn't add much to
the puzzle because there isn't much surviving artwork. There are a number of
interesting, but lightly visited sites within a reasonable drive of Cancun.
Ek Balam is getting more visitors now because tour buses are going there,
but it still only gets a fraction of the visitors that Chichen Itza gets.
The artwork there makes it well worth the stop. The IHAH museum in Merida
has some of the artifacts that were found in a tomb there. Mayapan is
another lightly visited site. It's interesting because it has some surviving
examples of the mural work on the temples. On the coast Akumal is a small
site that's frequently overlooked. It has a couple of surviving murals.

TB



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