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 |