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March 27th

28th March

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were after a good breakfast on the beach again. At 10:30 we met with the holiday care. As always, we were on vacation many possible trips, tours ... offered. Especially for a snorkel tour, we were interested very much and we also asked about bus service, because we still wanted to Tulum, by ferry to the island of Cozumel ... Then we lay back on the beach. In between I did - at Sabine snorkeling - despite high waves. After a short time was clear that they get along with mask is almost as good as I do.

About 15 clock we gave our towels again, because the sky was very cloudy.

After coffee we went again to the city where Sabine bought a manufactured from natural materials lamp. In addition, we had indeed found the bus station. When we wanted to go back, and began a heavy rain. In an instant the whole street was under water. We slipped in a store, which unfortunately had only a very small offer. For a sewage influence was directly next to the open door, the in the rain immediately began to stink murderous. Nice that the tropical rain are just so short. We were glad to get back on the road and take a deep breath.

went after a good dinner the night with a short visit to the bar (there were actually many lovely drinks, but we have to try out by far not all) of the day came to an end

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March 26th

27th March

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We were quite early awake and looked at the beach. Unfortunately, there is the bad habit of lying all early with towels, etc. to reserve. Whether we wanted to or not, we did it in the next few days, whatever. For this I had two used shirts picked out that we are above the inside out.

Since we did not know but so far we had on the first day at the beach only 2 places in the last row beds.

But on this day with us that was very right. We wanted to just chill out, lie in the sun, often times one of the many kinds of drinks taste (also included) go into the water, the pelicans and seagulls flying over the beach to watch ...

The beach in Playa del Carmen from under the storm 2 years ago (his name was Wilma, I think) suffered a lot. At that time, almost all of the sand was washed away. In order to save the remains, one has to be a long black plastic bags filled with sand down to the beach that look like dead whales, and locals also called so. Constantly attempting to flush new sand to the beach but the waves are just as eager to create the sand away again.

This hotel has good luck: There are other areas of the hotel facilities, which end with an eroded by the sea wall. Here the formerly up to 50 m wide beach is already completely gone.

Well: it is Viva Azteca at least enough beach for us was there. You could bathe (in more or less high waves) are well in the bright blue sea.

In the evening we went briefly into the "city". Here are the famous fifth Road, which is populated by thousands of travelers in the evening, here is a Gift shop next to the next, try here, "Indians" with pictures to make money, here to play Mexican music ....

In the city takes around 30 minutes. You can see the road some hotels, some Mayan ruins (Playa was once "trade point" on the way from Cancun to the interior part of the Yucatan), here there is a way that usually runs only 10 meters from the road. Here one is almost whistle "in the jungle," we see leaf-cutter ants, hear birds, trees looks with aerial roots, vines ....

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March 25th

26th March

Merida, Ek Balam and Playa del Carmen

clear after a good, very rich and obstigem breakfast, pineapple, many species of melon, papaya and many unknown fruit ... there are plenty of hotels. Where: the most colorful fruits I tasted mostly the least.

Then we took a city tour of Merida. We looked at old buildings, the custom of the arrogance of the English conquerors.

I like old English cathedrals and villas rather not. They seem so bleak, dark, threatening. The Mayan sites, however, from which they were built (even if there are any, many people lost their lives) have something sublime, historically significant in itself. We visited the Government Palace, the Cathedral ...

Then we went to the market. Here, Sabine once bought a very good, authentic Mexican Hammock (This part must be at least 1.60 to 1.80 m wide and very closely be. You sleep in it diagonally, it can - use them as a couple - supposedly carrying capacity of 4 tons. How good is a hammock can be counted using the strings that have been used .. But I do not remember how much has cords Sabines mat)

We went over the "ordinary" locals market. There are some really fresh meat, which hangs in the sun, fresh, but mostly shriveled fruit at noon, thousands of types of spare parts and components, many small food stalls where you can get an encore sure Montezuma's Revenge ... . Everywhere there is a lot of activity. .

Then there was the last joint lunch our tour group in a large open-air restaurant. Here we were offered lunch in addition to the folk dance. Gaily dressed Mexicans were dancing to tape music with glasses, bottles and trays on their heads. The food was - as always tasty. The drinks were - also as usual on the trip - expensive. Only coffee you could get yourself free.

The journey went on to Ek Balam, our (now) last Mayaort. The small (relatively new) excavation site, in addition to some small, have already been excavated buildings, but not as spectacular (or is that because we have already seen 3 cities?) As the highlight of a pyramid, you may climb, and are in their upper part, very well-preserved parts of a temple. As the temple entrance was very interesting - it is designed as a big mouth of a god - I really had to ¾ of about 110 steps high.

Up went really well. Above one has a very good view of the jungle (we saw smoke - surely a slash and burn), to the mountains, but probably not really mountains, overgrown ruins .... Even the temple entrance - you have found him a few years ago, he is still so white, that have not been discolored by the humidity - seemed overwhelming.

After everything I had sufficiently admired, I began my descent. Face always toward the stairs, slowly, diagonally down the steep steps ... Caution is the side which meet sometime at the end .. So do not come too close to the abyss ...

I was well down and was happy to listen to the remarks of Max.

The history of Maya is not really as complicated as I thought. The Olmec culture was replaced by the Maya. These acquisitions, like all American civilizations, much of its predecessors: a part of the gods, the construction of temples and pyramids, the very precise calendar, the observation of the stars, the sacrifice of prisoners for the gods .... They had a 20s-number system and knew the zero (much earlier than, say, the Europeans).

There was never a "unified Maya culture," but cities that stood against each other in competition. The Maya were many cities and developed rapidly. Even if they had to give up the wheel and iron, the many crops that were air conditioned possible that (coming from America so corn, potatoes, cocoa, and much more that we need today a day) many edible plants resulted in they were more accessible. For religious reasons, the cities wars against each other (when that was promising, "said Venus, which has been under constant) to have prisoners who could be sacrificed to the gods.

This was the sacrificed but apparently not quite as bad: only by the sacrifice (heart ripped out from the living body) could be the "real paradise to come. finally alliances were formed around the "great powers" Tikal and Calakmul . As one of the great powers was defeated by a small "city side", broke the balance, the wars were to .. Additionally, there was the ever-increasing population nutrition problems, since the fields are no longer "rest" and therefore could have been infertile. When, more often times the rains did not come true (global warming, the earth happened so every few hundred years, like just now), questioned the "common people" to their god kings, and there were riots. In consequence, most cities have been abandoned over time. The Mayan civilization was slowly creeping under. You followed then by the Toltecs, for example again the almost deserted populated Chichen Itza newly built and continue. These were then in principle (even slowly) being replaced by the Aztecs, which were then defeated by the Spaniards ....

Then our journey took us to Playa del Carmen, where we were looking forward to our hotel. We were lucky - After the long bus trip, we had taken the last few days behind us, we were about 18 clock the first to be dropped off at their hotel. A super trip was behind us. We have very seen a lot a lot about Mexico and the Maya experienced. Much of it is safe to tell still,

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• The natives still about 10% of the total population of the country, they live mostly in separate locations (we have seen in passing. Properties with a "Mayan hut, whose neighborhood is full of trash on a regular basis rather)
  

• The average" Mexicans "have a nearly with the U.S. citizens similar income Only unskilled are "poor". (Told me Max, but I the question was put firmly in the wrong place. All around us were other tour groups and Mexicans, Max looked at me with his comments also very intense and wondered each formulation .. Whether in our neighborhood "representatives his company "or" local tourist police was "otherwise and his response would have been different?)
  

• There are few roads through the jungle. Also, we are usually the same routes had been driven several times.
  

• locals were always very helpful, without expecting a tip (at least, the begging, I'm used to from Egypt, there was almost never)

any case, now was the holiday at the Hotel WYNDHAM VIVA AZTECA going on. Having our AI bracelet (which we were identified as hotel guests in the hotel but also for all street vendors) had received, we went to our room 1219th Unfortunately, the room had no sea view, but you could see the barely 40 cm wide "balcony" from the garden to see where to jump out small lizards ... And in the second floor of a hotel to be dreietagigen is certainly in order: the stairway is not as long, but nobody from outside can come into the room. was in the room are two double beds (which actually in a double room? We have only used one.), A safe, accessible well-stocked Minnibar (included), a beautiful bathroom, very quiet air conditioning ( the noise of air conditioning in the three hotels was far but very disturbing.) ... We were completely satisfied. We looked at only briefly this evening to the hotel and then went, after a good dinner, fast To sleep.

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March 24th

25th March

Uxmal, Kabah, Celestun lagoon, Merida

After breakfast we were again in the sunshine in Uxmal. Here it is next to the "Pyramid of the Magician" - a round / oval pyramid, which has allegedly created a dwarf / wizard in one night - many buildings in the Puuk construction. (Ground floor unadorned, many figures, Snakes, birds ... from Year 1 . Masks on the walls - floor), many buildings have Chak.

are at the entrance to admire a large cistern. Uxmal has - as one of the few cities - no cenotes. We saw a "Mayan World Tree". A tree of the 3 levels of the Maya world: roots / soil - soil - symbolizes heaven. This tree has many thorns on the trunk, so it can not be suffocated by the creepers.

We were in our "nuns square" that has never seen a nun. But The English explorers, old pastor could be in enclosed buildings that have many small rooms, safe rooms only imagine nuns. The buildings are interesting: they have such doors in each prime number (.. what a stupid word created by me). You have ample ornamentation. Here, too, mostly Mayan gods are seen.

Then we went on an inhabited by many iguanas playing field. (Have can it be that science does something wrong? Were the inhabitants of the ancient Maya cities, but no iguanas, the rummwimmeln now because everywhere, so never leave the city?)

Behind the square is the "Great Pyramid", was allowed to climb the man / could if you wanted to. I did not want. I have climbed just 35 of the 120 steps, I thought the way back to the high, steep steps but could be complicated.

(why the steps are each so high -.. The Maya today was 1.50 meters high, the 1200 years ago were not even sure how they are larger than the 35 to 40 cm high levels come up?

From the Great Pyramid could be from many others, suspect still at earth and scrub hidden other buildings. The pyramid itself was only half free of debris, sand and plants. From the side so you could clearly see how the Maya ruins have looked at all sure their find. We went after that to other buildings. We also saw a table of offerings in the form of Jaguar, phallus-shaped columns, the "fertility" symbolize, we saw colorful little birds flying around ....

Uxmal was worth a visit!

We drove a few kilometers to the Kabah. This city, which lies in the environment of Uxmal (20 km), and was allied with her too, is so far unearthed only a little. Right through the former town is a broad highway. Some large pyramids, you can sense only under the rubble. They are still completely unexcavated.

In general, there are archaeological discover certainly very much in Mexico. Max told me, that in the last 10 years in only one state 60 Maya villages has found. Since it is about to decipher the writing, noticed that even very important Mayan cities have not yet been recovered. You just know that there must have been them when they have lost a war against whom and so on. Where the ruins are in the jungle, surely know the grave robbers. Also on satellite images, the ruined cities are allegedly not detectable. In Kabah gave it a great "palace" with a 90 meter long frieze, which consisted of Chak-masks. Rüsselnasige this rain god, I mentioned many times before. order to inspect these, we had to climb a very steep staircase, which was worth it. On the back of the building, there were depictions of the ruler of the city: almost anatomically correct figures. on the walls there are reliefs and Mayan hieroglyphs.

Oh yes, I should mention that all the buildings of the early Maya were very colorful, almost kitschy painted colorfully. (Basic color of the pyramids was probably red.) The Max stressed several times.

After the very short visit (it was also only a small investment), in which we could also include the "elephant ear tree" admire, we went for lunch in a Mayan village.

Here, in a built in typical Mayan design restaurant which is operated by Maya, it was typical Mayan food from an "earth oven": hole in earth, wood fire until it glows, then up pot, the whole einbuddeln until it is cooked ...) For delicious, sometimes spicy food, there was a "Kukaratscha" = cockroach = tequila with coffee and brandy? to drink.

Then we drove on to Celestun lagoon already looked at the directions we fly on our bus pelicans. In a "port" were about 50 boats that were powered by 2 large outboard motors.

each to 6 people, we got into the boats. And off went a fast ride. Fortunately we had brought jackets despite the heat. Also, if I ride because of the large wind only once failed to make the zip to me, the whole jacket very used.

made already after 5 minutes we short a break to give us water birds to see, sitting on a fallen tree, then the boats chased further for some time until we saw everywhere light pink birds in the distance: We were there: Over 4,000 flamingos were standing here on the only 30 to 50 cm deep ocean water some Delta flew in pieces, many were in search of food. We came to 30 or 40 meters closer to the flamingos.

( text from the Internet:.. " The most popular bird in the reserve is the Pink Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber ruber) The Flamingo is one of the finest and most spectacular birds Its survival depends on an extremely fragile ecosystem (highly saline lagoons) from. In the northern hemisphere is the north and west coast of the peninsula Yucataán the only place where there are flamingo populations on the mainland.
Flamingos live in flocks of several thousand birds huddled together in knee-deep muddy water or salt levels. They feed on microorganisms, which are filtered through a complex mechanism in their large beaks. )

After about half an hour of observation, we drove on, passing bays where there were many birds, swimming, flying (many pelicans). The Banks were all mangroves. Suddenly we turned into a hidden water between the mangrove trees. A river cruise "through the Jungle"! ... were a long way on both sides of the boat some huge, bizarre roots that went down to the water. In the trees, birds, insects nests .... (Max showed us "Zwergeisvögel" - which were so small that I could not see them)

Then it went to a dock, where we visited a place where fresh water comes from the floor and as a Bach / river runs into the lagoon. Here in the water, there were many "four-eyed fish" - Fish that can see simultaneously under-and over water, somewhere there was a very rare "tiger heron"

Many locals were bathing in spring water. We ran on a wrong track a little round through the jungle. Then it was our boat that is stuck in shallow water had to be cleared, and we could go back.

The tour went to Merida. This is an old city, which now has almost one million inhabitants and built by the Spaniards in part from the remains of an ancient Maya city (ie: the Mayaüberbleibsel were completely destroyed. From the stones you then palaces and churches built.

As we passed the main square, it was so loud, as if 20 people would make noise with whistles. This loud pipes is caused by birds who gather after dark in the many trees on the market. (I've checked: the birds are called Quiscalus mexicanus - Dohlengrackel- They are slightly larger than blackbirds, have longer tails, the males are bright blue black .. and they make a big noise.)

for further hotel. The Los Aluxes is probably a 5-star hotel. But it is in the middle of downtown, fairly built and we had a view into the rear building. - Actually, that is our worst hotel on the trip, even if it had the most stars. Again, we were welcomed with a drink.

Then we went into town for dinner. Sabine and I picked out a small domestic economy, where we ate very well and drank our first "Tequila Sunrise". Tequila itself, "Landesgesöff" which is made from agave, preferably with a red worm should taste in the bottle is drunk with salt and lemon, I tried only once. I have not tasted it and I understand the cult of salt and citrus fruit not quite ..

Also on this day - as so often - we went to bed relatively early.