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- Merida - Chichen Itza - Cancun (Saturday 08/09/07)
- ====== Merida - Chichen Itza - Cancun (Saturday 08/09/07) ====== ===== Chichen Itza ===== [{{viaggi:messico:Chichen_Itza-01.jpg?280x210 |**Chichen Itza**}}] <color navy> Chichen Itza - "The enter of sorcerers wells" i
- Mexico City (Sunday 26/08/07)
- this huge city in a single day!\\ Mexico City often suffer from bad publicity even by tour operators. The tourist areas of the city and the districts the... es and be careful.\\ The city traffic is very intense. When you do not know the city the best means of transport is by taxi. Taxis in front the hotels ar
- Palenque - Campeche (Thursday 06/09/07)
- ====== Palenque - Campeche (Thursday 06/09/07) ====== ===== Palenque ===== <color navy> Buried in the jungle of Chiapas, Palenque is considered one of the most important Mayan ceremonial centers. Knows its apogee during the classical era (6
- Teotihuacan (Monday 27/08/07)
- should visit Teotihuacan in the morning. For convenience, we endorsed one of the many taxi drivers affiliated with the hotel, and it was good.\\ As a first... slightly alcoholic (not bad after all).\\ Subsequently, the driver took us to the Pyramid of the Moon
- Oaxaca - Monte Alban - (Friday Mitla 31/08/07)
- over 1000 years.\\ Urban and Zapotec ceremonial center, founded 800 BC, erected by a people originally from //La Venta// (Olmec), had the peak between 100 and 800 AD. It had close relationship with the Olmec centers during the Preclassic period, when the city w
- Palenque - Yaxchilan - Bonampak (Wednesday 05/09/07)
- ====== Palenque - Yaxchilan - Bonampak (Wednesday 05/09/07) ====== // For this hike it is imperative t... e to stop to drink.\\ This trip has occupied the entire day, but it was worth it. We started early, the sun had not risen, we made the breakfast under a thatched hut in th... taries acquires a great importance to the development of Yaxchilan, the main center in the early sixth
- Mexico City - Puebla (Wednesday 29/08/07)
- t urban area in the world, we wnet to the magnificent colonial cities, several pre-Hispanic sites (Aztec, Zapotec, Mixtec Maya), the stunning scenery and indigenous regions still preserving their traditions.\\ // ===== Cholula ===== <color navy> Lo... a is one of the largest pre-Columbian ceremonial centers and enjoys of a terrible reputation: it seems
- Tuxtla - San Cristobal De Las Casas (Sunday 02/09/07)
- tobal De Las Casas (Sunday 02/09/07) ====== // We entered into Chiapas. // ===== Chiapas ===== <color ... as undergone significant changes in the next fifteen years.\\ Diverging interests of the indigenous people of Chiapas, refugees from Guatemala, the companies of exploitation of forests and the government, have put a strain on the fragile culture and ec
- Mexico City (Tuesday 28/08/07)
- , by means of steel rods, the roof from which descends a scenic waterfall.\\ At the entrance stands a giant statue of the god //Tlaloc//. The rooms follow chronol... nographic collections relating to the various current Indian population are unparalleled. The museum h
- Faces of Mexico
- ==== * In winter the archaeological sites are open every day from 08:00 to 17:00 and until 18:00 in summer. * The museums are generally closed on Mondays. * The lunch time is from 14:00 to 15:00 or so. * Be prudent in indigenous regions with photographs, it is often forbidden to photograph the people for religious
- Campeche - Uxmal - Merida (Friday 07/09/07)
- able for the delicacy of its architecture and the end working of stone (do not forget that this civili... f fortune-teller, on which stands the Temple of Chenes whose entrance is the mouth of a huge animal.</color> * <color navy>The Quadrangle of the Nuns ... Turtles.</color> * <color navy>And the Government Palace.</color> * <color navy>The Great Pyra
- Mexico City (Saturday 25/08/07)
- ltitude, 2240m above sea level, this means that even in warmer periods in Mexico City the temperatures... an" empire.\\ Founded in 1321 with the name of "Tenochtitlan" by the priest "Tenoch", Tenochtitlan in the indigenous Nahuatl language means "the city of Tenoch". After the Spanish co
- Puebla - Oaxaca (Thursday 30/08/07)
- inhabitants. The natives of this region are descendants of pre-Hispanic groups Zapolechi and Mixtec,... rpets in wools and jewelry to name a few, have given many villages an international reputation. The //... s and flowering trees, busy until late at night, beneath its porches (//portales//), cafes and restaur... he //Palcio del Gobierno//, dating to the early twentieth century, with a mural by Arturo Garcia Busto
- San Cristobal - Palenque (Tuesday 04/09/07)
- ====== San Cristobal - Palenque (Tuesday 04/09/07) ====== // Be careful on this road which is full of ... (bumps).\\ In this stage we did most unpleasant encounters, nothing to worry about, but we met groups of kids who tend ropes along the road, near the Topes (but not on... whatever. Not worrying, but very sad, we have often been afraid to let them hurt as they surround the
- San Cristobal and its surroundings (Monday 03/09/07)
- Fully carpeted colors of the flag of Mexico (green, white and red ... very familiar). Full of life ... he Cathedral, built in 1528, demolished in the seventeenth century and rebuilt in 1696 and the Neoclassical //Palacio Municipal//. </color> [{{viaggi:messico
