One of the most famous ruin sites we visited. We had an LDS tour guide take us here and also to Telum. It was cool because he was able to relate the sites to the Book of Mormon. We learned that although very cool, the people at Chitzen Itza were very wicked and had some crazy customs and rituals. The picture below is the main building on the site, you use to be able to go inside and walk to the top, but i guess about 5 years ago they stopped letting people, we were pretty sad about that.
The happy couple, standing in front of the sink-hole where the Mayans use to sacrifice their people and throw there bodies into this pit... you can see the remains of the platform behind us...eerie huh?
These columns are thought to represent the strippling warriors.
I can't remeber what these buildings are...but they were pretty cool!
holy cats these pics are great! Saw your grad photo on danimal's fridge... way to go, you did it! And what a great way to celebrate your graduation(s). hope you didn't get the swine flu in Me-he-co, because that would be really sad.
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