After spending the morning exploring Campeche (and getting in a little shopping), we headed to Uxmal. This was not on our original itinerary, but it was one of our favorite ruin sites. The stonework here was exceptional. Many of the buildings still had their original, gruesome carvings. The architecture was also a lot more varied than some of the other sites, which seemed to have the same pattern of one "Great" pyramid, a ball court, and a lot more buildings that looked the same. Now, Uxmal does have a great pyramid (The Magician's Pyramid) and a ball court, but it's the other buildings that really set Uxmal apart.
We were there in the heat of the day. I'm not sure if it was a blessing or a curse that we got rained on. The ominous sky made for some great photos and it was nice to be out of the direct sun, but the torential downpour trapped us under an archway for about 15 minutes before we decided to just live with the fact that we were going to get soaked. About five minutes after we made that decision (and of course after we were soaked to our skin), the rain stopped. Go figure.
Rod and I decided to wash the mud from the trail off our legs in one of the ginormous puddles. In the 30 minutes it had been raining, the puddle was already ankle deep.
We also wandered off the trail to find some of the less-visited ruins and were surprised to find this:
The map says it is the Temple of the Old Woman, but I'm not sure what the Old Woman was doing with all these phalli (sp?).
1 comment:
Your pictures never cease to amaze me. How do I get a sweet gig going around the world like that? :)
Oh well, slowly but surely, I'll comb the world myself. Glad that you're enjoying your travels. :)
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