7/7 - Uxmal Ruins! YAY!

We have now come to my second excursion for this trip - the ruins of Uxmal! :) 

My group right about the end of our tour of Uxmal

We met at Los Sanjuanistas Park around noon to take the bus up there. It's kinda far away from Merida itself, so we had a while to sit in the bus.

Me next to the statue at Los Sanjuanistas

Gayleen, Audrey, Morgan, and Allie

 Uxmal is visited more than Dzibichaltun, I think - there was a fairly nice entrance and a couple gift shops right behind that entrance. We walked through that and up a short set of stairs to where we started our tour.

I have no idea exactly what this is, but it looks cool :)

Rebecca, Aaron, and Brooke

Enlarged for your reading pleasure! :)

Unlike the trip to Dzibichaltun, where we were able to walk around and explore the ruins however we wanted to, for Uxmal we actually had a tour guide with us that took us along a particular path and talked about the history and significance of it all. It was really quite fascinating; Paco, our guide, knew a lot about the history and Mayan mythology because he's an archaeologist and is studying this sort of thing.

Uxmal's primary structure, a HUGE pyramid

Our guide Paco talking about the pyramid's significance

Ethan lookin' chill in his shades

YAY! Look at us - we're so buff! XD

More pics to come in another blog post. Seriously, there was so much to see and explore, I took a LOT of pictures while listening to our tour guide. 

Until next time, hasta la vista!