 El Castillo (Pyramid of Kukulcan) |
 25m high |
 Massive Maya calendar |
 Nine levels divided in two, making 18 terraces that make the 18 20-day months of the Maya Vague year |
 The 4 stairways have 91 steps, add the top platform and the total is 365 |
 Top of El Castillo |
 Carved face with a big nose |
 Entrance to the ball court |
 Great ball court - largest in Mexico |
 Towering wall with stone ring - players had to get the ball through this ring |
 Carved stone ring |
 Serpent head |
 Carving of a ball player |
 Carving of a ball player |
 Templo del Barbado (Temple of the Bearded Man) |
 Iguana |
 Plataforma de los Craneos (Platform of Skulls) |
 Many skulls |
 Even carved on the corners |
 Skull up close |
 Platform of the Skulls - carving |
 Eagle |
 Platform of the Skulls - carving |
 Plataforma de las Aguilas y los Jaguares (Platform of the Eagles and Jaguars) |
 Eagle |
 Jaguar |
 Templo do los Guerreros (Temple of the Warriors) |
 Many columns are carved with figures of warriors |
 Warriors intricately carved |
 Grupo de las Mil Columnas (Group of the Thousand Columns) |
 Many columns |
 Stretching South and east |
 Templo de las Grandes Mesas |
 Great craving |
 Iguana basking in the sun |
 Cenote Sagrado (Sacred Cenote) |
 60m in diameter and 35m deep |
 Panorama of the Sacred Cenote |
 Panorama of the Sacred Cenote |
 Xtoloc Temple? |
 El Osario (The Ossuary) - aka the Bone House or High Priest's Grave |
 Serpent heads at the base of the stairway |
 La Casa Colorada |
 Iguana in the leaves |
 El Caracol (the snail) - the Observatory |
 Buildings within buildings |
 La Iglesia (The Church) |
 La Iglesia |
 Big nose |
 Intricately carved building next to the nunnery |
 Another big nose - love these |