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- Oaxaca - Monte Alban - (Friday Mitla 31/08/07)
- ====== Oaxaca - Monte Alban - (Friday Mitla 31/08/07) ====== ===== Monte Alban (white mountain) =====... ded 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 was adorned with pillars,
- Merida - Chichen Itza - Cancun (Saturday 08/09/07)
- tza - "The enter of sorcerers wells" in the Mayan language.\\ Born in the classical epoch, Chichen Itza shows, however, due to different architectural st... \\ Close to Castillo sits the //Tzompantli//, a platform marked by stone carvings of human skulls. Cl... leads to the cenote where human sacrifices took place. This holy well, represents for the Maya the m
- Palenque - Yaxchilan - Bonampak (Wednesday 05/09/07)
- ====== Palenque - Yaxchilan - Bonampak (Wednesday 05/09/07) ====== // For this hike it is imperative to have a chaffeur... get to Yaxchilan and Bonampak is a task for local people ... you ... water down the road because there are not great places where to stop to drink.\\ This trip has occup... ght of dawn (we were the first).\\ // ===== Yaxchilan ===== [{{viaggi:messico:Fiume_Usumacinta.jpg?280
- Teotihuacan (Monday 27/08/07)
- d it was good.\\ As a first step took us to the place of a cooperative living by making Obsidian obje... extinct bird, a strange acoustic effect produced clapping in the middle of the squares of some archaeo... y in the middle of the arid mountains, it was the largest city and capital of Mexico's largest pre-Columbian empire.\\ It is one of the most important ar
- Mexico City - Puebla (Wednesday 29/08/07)
- ====== Mexico City - Puebla (Wednesday 29/08/07) ====== // After the largest urban area in the world, we wnet to the magnificent ... till preserving their traditions.\\ // ===== Cholula ===== <color navy> Located 10km west of Puebla, this small farming village is mainly specialized in t
- Mexico City (Sunday 26/08/07)
- oard. To use the bus requires a fair amount of balance in order to remain standing, and a greater amo... rakes are used very little).\\ // ===== Paseo de la Reforma ===== [{{viaggi:messico:Paseo_Della_Reforma-01.jpg?210x280 |**Paseo de la Reforma**}}] // Paseo de la Reforma: the main street also calle
- Tuxtla - San Cristobal De Las Casas (Sunday 02/09/07)
- ====== Tuxtla - San Cristobal De Las Casas (Sunday 02/09/07) ====== // We entered into Chiapas. // ===== Chiapas ==... eauty and great ecological diversity. After the plateau of the valley of Oaxaca, you'll discover a mo... ndigenous people of Chiapas, refugees from Guatemala, the companies of exploitation of forests and the
- Palenque - Campeche (Thursday 06/09/07)
- ceremonial centers. Knows its apogee during the classical era (600 - 800).\\ The excavations carried... 280x210|**Palenque**}}] ~~CLEARFLOAT~~ // The //Palacio//, where works for the preservation of artefac... [{{viaggi:messico:Palenque-04.jpg?600x180|**The Palacio**}}] [{{viaggi:messico:Palenque-05.jpg?600x180|**The Palacio**}}] [{{viaggi:messico:Palenque-07.jpg?600x180
- Oaxaca - Tuxtla Gutierrez (Saturday 01/09/07)
- ====== Oaxaca - Tuxtla Gutierrez (Saturday 01/09/07) ====== // So far our journey has proceeded in mou... d the humidity stifling when we crossed a vast wetland. // ===== Tuxla Gutierrez ===== [{{viaggi:messico:Verso_Tuxla_Gutierrez.jpg?280x210 |**Toward Tuxla Gutierrez**}}] <c
- Puebla - Oaxaca (Thursday 30/08/07)
- ====== Puebla - Oaxaca (Thursday 30/08/07) ====== ===== Oaxaca ===== <color navy> Capital of the state... h is a true cultural mosaic, is exceptional: the black porcelain, carpets in wools and jewelry to name a few, have given many villages an international reputation. The //zocalo// is
- Mexico City (Tuesday 28/08/07)
- the entrance stands a giant statue of the god //Tlaloc//. The rooms follow chronologically the evolut... \\ Archaeological and ethnographic collections relating to the various current Indian population are unparalleled. The museum has also a restaurant and a... tocked bookshop.\\ Immediately after the //taquilla//, there is room on the right of temporary exhibi
- San Cristobal and its surroundings (Monday 03/09/07)
- (Monday 03/09/07) ====== ====== San Cristobal de Las Casas ====== // This was the town that the more we liked.\\ Fully carpeted colors of the flag of Mexico (green, white and red ... very familia... <color navy> Everything revolves around at the //Plaza de 31 March//, in which there are the Cathedral... venteenth century and rebuilt in 1696 and the Neoclassical //Palacio Municipal//. </color> [{{viaggi:
- Mexico City (Saturday 25/08/07)
- o City, capital of the country, considered as the largest city in the world with its approximately 23 ... re.\\ 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 conquest, will reta
- Campeche - Uxmal - Merida (Friday 07/09/07)
- ====== ===== Uxmal ("Three times built" in Mayan language) ===== <color navy> Uxmal is a site notable... s.</color> * <color navy>And the Government Palace.</color> * <color navy>The Great Pyramid wh... he zocalo, the murals on the first floor of the palace of the governor, the Hall of marriages (beautif... ith your hotel on the cultural activities taking place on different squares of the city according to t
- San Cristobal - Palenque (Tuesday 04/09/07)
- ndings]] => [[.:giorno 12|Day 12: Palenque - Yaxchilan - Bonampak]] {{tag>Travels Mexico Agua_Azul}}
