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Sunday, October 20, 2019

Mexico

Mexico is very colorful and beautiful country

Cancun

Cancun is a resort city

where people all over the world are coming to lay under the sun

Mexican pesos, some notes are made of plastic

In Cancun there is not much to see, beside some murals

An open air shopping center surrounded with colorful buildings

And this church

Mexican number plates are standardized per Mexican state

Electricity meters are accessible for everyone, and are mounted on facades of buildings

Mexicans are passionate about decorated skull, they gift each other skull made of sugar during holiday called Calavera

Mexican food, especially tacos, meat and other species wrapped in tortilla is fantastic

Every food is served with a set of species for customer

The public transportation in Cancun is organized with mini buses

When there is no seat left, people just stand in buses

The taxis are of white and green colors

The crossings are a bit elevated for pedestrians, cars will definitely not accelerate on this sections

Merida

The capital of Yucatan state is a city called Merida

it is the fist city which has been established by Spanish conquerers

and has a lot of colonial buildings

with some weird flavor of city components

The central cathedral of Merida

the city is very picturesque

like this one

the interiors of old buildings are also great

Typical Mexican architecture

Entrance to the church

public phone booths are still alive in Mexico

The city has a weird looking buses, like in Chernihiv Ukraine

Frida Kahlo was Mexican

there are a lot of nice corners in city center

like this one

 where Mexicans organize events almost every evening

One of the main gates to historical city center

As you go out of center the buildings are still very colorful

people make tortillas

and grill corn

Yucatan is the state where Maya developed their civilization

The most influential center was Chichen Itza.
Which is a huge area of a former Mayan capital. El Castillo is the most well known Mayan pyramid of the world

Cenote Sagrado is a well were Mayas have done scarifications, humans, gold, etc.

In Chichen Itza is the largest the well preserved great ball court of mesoamerican ballgame

Chichen Itza is so large, that easily a separate blogpost can be dedicated to it

modern Mayans are still trying to preserve the traditions and play the game in local events.
Although without final scarification of lost team.

Locals also do the ceremony of cleaning the soul

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