Coincidentally, the first 2 are predominantly Mayan in style and we have visited in excellent conditions, with a guide just for us (we have also exhausted our questions " Challenging "and our why and how): Briefly, the delicious feeling of having these two wonderful places, grand and mysterious just for us. One thing to remember: get there early as 11 hours from the hordes of tourists are discharged by bus from Cancun.
The best of the best: UXMAL
We loved UXMAL for the embellishments that are superb. The site is huge. Restore has the same (between 50 and 70 per cent), one can visit the palace (120 m frontage), enjoy the ball game, stroll through the squares of the nuns (our favorite), or climb the Great Pyramid and contemplate Area fully covered with a dense forest where you guess mounds that are probably still has rehabilitated sites .. On arrival, facing the pyramid, you type in the hands and the cry of a sacred bird we answered (the same as that of Chichen), they were strong their architects! D
u top of the pyramid, we contemplate the whole site, real moment of serenity. Austrians encountered later were attacked by killer wasps here 2 days later and had to rush down the stairs at full speed, abandoning cameras, backpacks ... Phew, we've escaped! In two COBA
We loved COBA. is the largest known Maya site with 70 sq km, only 1% of the 6,500 buildings are removed from the matrix of the thick jungle.
Each mound that can be guessed through the vegetation is a building that retains its mysteries ... from work for future generations of archaeologists!
Above they have it all: we discovered the first buildings on the entry (including a ball game in excellent condition and engraved stelae, only here), then take bikes or "bush taxi" (to tricycles) and s 'true' good morning on the small paths "to the discovery of three other buildings including the largest Mayan pyramid (42 meters and 113 steps) which can still climb (rare privilege, in a year is completed) . D
e up there, we discover the jungle out of sight, one a temple emerges from the forest! A beautiful moment full of exotic charm all 3 (Tof, Mary and me), with Sarah threw in the towel this morning Because the blur turista. On exiting the car park was full block and we went to swim in a cenote underground. In three Chichen Itza:
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s to Chichen Itza, the site's most famous and most visited Yucatan, well, we liked least for 3 reasons: - the visit is completely disrupted by the "merchants of the temple" everything that invade the site to sell to tourists all kind of memories that have Maya at least the advantage of being manufactured locally (it's a bit like the TVs in a restaurant: the eye is constantly drawn to the screen and you must struggle to get by)
- Toltec influence is very present and human sacrifice, the same rituals, it's heavy at the end!
- the world was Sunday, day free for Mexicans, which is a good idea in itself but does not allow us not to measure the strength of the place. Having
we've still spent 6 hours! Note that the observatory has left NASA engineers bec!
In conclusion, these pre-Hispanic cities of Yucatan have left a strong impression and mysterious. The economic and human resources made by this civilization to build this plethora of buildings in each city we have seemed excessive. One of our guides we may have given the key: it was a true theocracy! ... 
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