by Richard Quinn | Feb 27, 2024 | Mexico, Road Trips, Travel
DAY 11: Back on the Road, from Chichén Itzá to Cancun Mexico has always been well known to international travelers for the popular tourist destinations on its Pacific coast, places like Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta, and Cabo San Lucas, but prior to the early...
by Richard Quinn | Jan 27, 2024 | Maya, Mexico, Road Trips, Travel
DAY 9: Uxmal: A Tough Act to Follow Uxmal vs Chichén Itzá? There wasn’t really a competition between these two Mayan cities, it was more of a question that I’d been asking myself. I’d seen plenty of photographs of both, so I knew more or less what to...
by Richard Quinn | Jan 3, 2024 | Mexico, Road Trips, Travel
When our attempt at driving west to San Cristobal de las Casas was thwarted by yet another Zapatista roadblock, our only option was to return to Palenque, where we spent another night with the toucans at the Comfort Inn. It was beginning to feel like we were spinning...
by Richard Quinn | Oct 14, 2023 | Maya, Mexico, Travel
The Temple of Kukulkan, the Feathered Serpent, is the largest structure in the ancient city of Chichén Itzá. Often referred to as the Castillo, it is perhaps the most perfect example of a Mayan step pyramid to have survived into our modern age, and it’s so well...
by Richard Quinn | Apr 17, 2023 | Archaeology, Maya, Mexico, Travel
Tulum is not all that large, as Mayan cities go, but its spectacular location, right on the Caribbean coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, makes it one of the best known, and definitely one of the most picturesque. This was a late post-classic Maya site that was at it’s...
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