This blog post will highlight our trip to the ruins of the Maya city of Mayapan!
Courtesy of Wikipedia…
“Mayapan is a Pre-Columbian Maya site a couple of kilometers south of the town of Telchaquillo in Municipality of Tecoh, approximately 40 km south-east of Mérida and 100 km west of Chichen Itza; in the state of Yucatán, Mexico. Mayapan was the political and cultural capital of the Maya in the Yucatán Peninsula during the Late Post-Classic period from the 1220s until the 1440s. Estimates of the total city population are 15,000-17,000 persons, and the site has more than 4000 structures within the city walls, and additional dwellings outside”
As was our previous visit, Mayapan doesn’t suffer from a crush of tourists like Chichen Itza and even Uxmal do!
The structures that have been uncovered to date and reconstructed all have trilingual signs to help you understand the significance of each.
It was a real treat to be able to just explore at our own speed and to be able to spend time getting a real feel for the city.
I hope you’ll enjoy the select few of the many, many pictures from the site!
No trip would be complete without a climb to the top of Kukulkan’s Castle!
What a great visit… by the time we left the heat of the day was just ramping up!
Next blog post will cover other stops we made on the Convent Route!
Cheers!
Love to all,
-doug and elaine