Chichén Itza lies between Mérida and Cancún. It's a large Maya archeological site on the Yucatán peninsula. It was obvious that Cichén Itza is "more important" than our other pre-Columbian experience: El Tajín. It's full of tourists, we haven't seen this many European and North-American faces in other parts of Mexico.
We did know that the price of the tickets would be high (at least for us), but we decided to look around. The entry is free one hour before closing time, but one hour is just not enough. So, we paid those ten bucks each. Even though it's worth it, we would have loved to get a map or something for the money.
Inside it's not only an archeological site, but rather a huge flea-market. It's almost embarrassing and definitely annoying. But otherwise, it's amazing: the buildings, the stonework are perfect evidence of the late existence of a developed culture.
It's astonishing how this ancient civilization defies analysis: no one really knows what these buildings were made for, what events the reliefs describe. Again: an amazingly different world.
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