It was a early morning rise. But we headed out on a two hour bus ride, to the city.
After you put your ticket into the gate and go through you have to walk down a big path filled with vendors trying to sell you things and you walk out into a field where the pyramids and city rise up high.
It was an amazing view, and our tour guide was really great, and we learned a great deal about the culture.
This is the main pyramid, and my second world wonder. You used to be able to climb the steps to the top back in like 2004. I bet that was amazing!
They also had an observatory, the Mayans were far ahead of their time with their understanding of space and the world!
These pillars were used to hold up a huge roof that was made out of wood and palm fronds, but they lead to another pyramid, where they performed human sacrifices... Which is crazy to me, but it was very interesting.
after our super hot day at the city it was in the 90s with high humidity, we headed to a nearby cenote to swim.
A cenote is a sink hole essentially, but they are fed by under ground springs and some are even in a cave or partial cave like this one. Some of the cenotes they sacrificed people in, this one they did not, but this cenote is so deep they can not even scuba dive to the bottom of it! And there is an underground river that runs into it. The water was much warmer than I expected too!
After a quick swim we headed upstairs for dinner. While we were eating a huge rainstorm came in! Thankfully we went swimming first!
Then on to our 2 hour bus ride home, after 14 hours we were exhausted!!!
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