Monday, July 20, 2009

Mayan ruins of Tulum (Cruise me baby! contd.)

The first picture shows mayan calendar, according to which, there are 18 months in a year, each 20 days, which makes 360 days (note 360 degrees in a circle as well), the other 5 days are in the center of the calendar. Those 5 days had a very specific significance for maya. Children born those days were sacrified. The second picture shows some hand-made obsidian statuette. Can you spot someone on the third picture? Yes, there are lots of iguanas in Mexico, sitting in the sun or hiding in the shade, or trying to steal bird eggs right out of the nest. However when being pecked on the head and chased away by fiesty mama-bird, they don't dare come back. The rest of the pictures are of the ruins and us visiting them. It was really hot there, so after the excursion turquoise waters looked rather tempting. Me and the kids went for it.

1 comments:

Tatiana said...

chto, eti piramidy prjam na beregu stojat??? kakie orientirovannye na krasotu i komfort indeicy! a kakogo мулф etot gorod?
da, na russkom tut tolko ja, skoree vsego ))) Tania