Part I: Part II: Today’s guest post is from Simone di Santi of A Road Retraveled who gives us a taste of Ancient Egypt, pyramids, and obelisks in Rome. A Road Retraveled travel web series strives to empower, educate and encourage viewers to travel. Their pathway to education includes focusing on video awareness by producing [...]
Photo Of The Day: Painting In The Temple Of The Frescoes
It is rare to find mural work in the Maya archaeological sites. A lot of it has been carted off far and wide and is only available to view in museum settings, separated from its place of creation. For some of those pieces this has been a good way to exist – under the watchful [...]
Photo of The Day: Downward Descending God
Every archaeological site in the Maya world has at least one iconic item that, when listed all together, creates a list for a Maya scavenger hunt. At the site in Tulum, the focus of the scavenger hunt is the Downward Descending God. Since I tend to travel without information, I did not know about the [...]
Tulum: The Walled City
‘The Tulum ruins are that way.’ said the young woman at the front desk of Zahra. She pointed in the general direction of the archaeological site and continued, ‘At the end of the road. You can take a taxi, or rent a bike …’ I interrupted her by saying, ‘No, I’d like to walk.’ She [...]
Uxmal: The Place of Pentiful Harvests
I was leaving Merida a little later than I had expected that morning, having forgotten to charge the battery in my digital camera. Combined with the travel time of about an hour-and-a-half to get to Uxmal from Merida by bus, I landed in the middle of the Puuc just before the archaeological site witching hour, [...]
Chichen-Itza: Mouth of the Well of the Itzas
The unlit path leading through the jungle and up to Chichen-Itza was crowded with people, which formed a processional to the site. The quietness of everyone as they walked suggested solemnity. The darkness made everyone overly cautious of their steps as they walked with their heads down, watching as they stepped over tree roots, rocks, [...]
